Board of Directors
Official Board Roster
11/10/2025
Adrianne Maddux, Chairperson
Member since August 2022
Hopi
Executive Director ⎮ Denver Indian Health and Family Services
Before her appointment in 2018, Adrianne served as the Chief Operating Officer and Acting CEO at DIHFS and has been with the organization since 2007. She has over 35 years of experience working in the medical field. Her current position requires advocacy for health policy initiatives, proficiency in operation oversight, compliance with state, federal, and local laws and regulations, maintaining a sustainable health clinic, and fiscal planning and management.
Crystal LoudHawk-Hedgepeth, Treasurer
Member since December 2022
Dine (Navajo)
Sr. Program Officer of Research ⎮ American Indian College Fund (College Fund)
Crystal LoudHawk-Hedgepeth holds two master’s degrees in Health Education and Clinical Science and a certificate in Indigenous Research Methodologies. She is originally from Sanostee, New Mexico, but now resides in Denver, Colorado. She is an enrolled member of the Diné (Navajo) Nation and is born for Ta’neeszahnii (Tangle) nisli' Bįįh bitoodnii (Deer Spring) people. Much of her work has focused on bringing awareness, understanding, and access to Native people in rural and urban communities through research, programming, and community service.
Professionally, Crystal works as a Sr. Program Officer of Research at the American Indian College Fund (College Fund), where she helps execute their systematic research initiatives and expands programming efforts at Tribal College and Universities (TCU). Before working at the College Fund, Crystal worked for the Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health (CAIANH) and Colorado Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CCTSI) for over ten years, supporting and managing research projects to reduce the health disparities in Colorado, specifically among urban/rural American Indian Communities.
Lucille Echohawk, Member
Member since August 2022
Pawnee Nation
Retired
Lucille Echohawk is a Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma citizen and has worked in the Indian child welfare, non-profit, and philanthropic fields for more than thirty years. She was employed for twelve years as a Strategic Advisor with Casey Family Programs, a national private operating foundation. She served as Executive Director of the Denver Indian Family Resource Center from 2012-2014 and then again in that capacity as a volunteer from 2018 until 2020 and again in 2023. Though formally retired, she continues to participate in community, state, and national endeavors. She holds a BA degree from Brigham Young University and an MEd from Erikson Institute for Early Education, Loyola University - Chicago.
Kevin Raleigh, Member
Member since December 2022
No tribal affiliation
DOES Associate Director, Outreach, Native American Services ⎮ Colorado Coalition for the Homeless
Professional Summary: Kevin Raleigh brings 18 years of experience in homelessness intervention and resolution as a practitioner and manager of direct service teams. His core competencies lie in creating and maintaining intensive, relational, frontline, resource connection services and programming for the most vulnerable and disconnected individuals and families experiencing chronic homelessness in Denver.
Chris Lopez, Member
Member since January 2025
No tribal affiliation
Community Relationship Manager for Southwest Colorado ⎮ Colorado Housing and Finance Authority
Professional Summary: Chris Lopez brings a diverse professional background to his role as Community Relationship Manager for Southwest Colorado for the Colorado Housing and Finance Authority (CHFA), having worked for nonprofits, local government and in the private sector. Chris was born and raised in Santa Fe, New Mexico and most of his career has been focused on community and economic development, affordable housing, land use planning and entitlement work, and natural resources management.
Jacquelyn D. Stanton, Member
Member since January 2025
No tribal affiliation
Jacquelyn D. Stanton Consulting
Jacquelyn Stanton is an Equity Practitioner providing consultation services specifically regarding Radical Healing for Families in Communities of Color based on the principles of Whole Community Inclusion. Jacquie is completing a doctorate in Organizational Psychology focusing on Organizational Development and Leadership from the University of Arizona Global Campus. This leads to her current endeavor in providing consulting initiatives in equity, diversity, and inclusion in both government, local government, housing and economic equity. She serves on the Colorado Access Region V Program Improvement Advisory Council as the Co-Chair. The Colorado Council of Black Nurses Advisory Council, the Denver Rocky Mountain Chapter of the Association of Black Psychologists, the Houston Chapter of the National Association of Black Social Workers, the State of Colorado Office Health Equity Commission in the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, and the Colorado Council on Indian Affairs in the Lt. Governor’s Office. She is actively involved in community efforts to address the clinical behavioral health needs of members of marginalized communities.
Carla Respects Nothing, Member
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