Brenda Brandon

Brenda Brandon (Seneca/Cayuga) is an Environmental Scientist with fifteen years experience working in the field in both technical and educational aspects. Brenda is the Technical Outreach Services for Native American Communities (TOSNAC) Coordinator at Haskell Environmental Research Studies (HERS) Center, Haskell Indian Nations University. She has coordinated outreach efforts to over sixty Tribes and Alaskan Villages dealing with hazardous substance in the past four years through the TOSNAC program and the Great Plains/Rocky Mountain Hazardous Substance Research Center. The program focuses on providing technical information to Tribal Environmental Professionals and Communities and getting them involved in making decisions about their environment. Brandon's primary concern is to enable Tribal communities to understand and communicate risk assessment as it relates to culture. She has worked with a variety of sites, including the Former Badlands Bombing Range (Oglala Sioux Tribe, Pine Ridge, South Dakota), Red Dog Mine (Maniilaq Tribal Association, Kotzebue, Alaska), Sulpher Bank Mercury Mine (Elem Nation, Clearlake, California) and Eastern Surplus Superfund Site (Passamaquoddy Tribe, Meddybemps, Maine).