Angelica (Jelly) Firmin

Jelly Firmin smiling and holding wooden mask on Styrofoam covered table
Research Assistant

Education

Psychology Student

Biography

Jelly Firmin is Koyukon and Gwich’in Athabascan. She is from Tanana and Fort Yukon ľ¹ÏÖ±²¥. Previously, Jelly worked as a research assistant on projects concerning internalized oppression in ľ¹ÏÖ±²¥ Natives and postpartum depression screening practices for providers in ľ¹ÏÖ±²¥ and Hawaii. She earned her bachelor’s in psychology at the University of ľ¹ÏÖ±²¥ Anchorage and plans to pursue her PhD in clinical psychology. She desires to use her education to research suicide prevention methods and treatments for ľ¹ÏÖ±²¥ Native people that combine traditional healing practices and western medicine.