Dr. Julie Roddy is Ojibwe and a member of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians. She is the James Wurgler, MD Chair of Criminal Justice and Behavioral Health within the Criminology and Criminal Justice Department at Northern Arizona University and a Northern Arizona Behavioral Health Authority Institute Transformational Fellow. Dr. Roddy has a history of offering her research and subject matter expertise to both large national institutions and small community organizations in support of evidence-based practices delivered in a cost-effective manner.

She is currently funded by the National Institute of Health (NIH) to study native resilience among Arizona tribal members in recovery and as an investigator on an NIH R25 grant to train PhD students in culturally centered addiction research (C-CART, PIs Baldwin and Mellott). Her research focus is on substance use, recovery, incarceration and re-entry and the role of housing in each of these areas. Dr. Roddy is the Vice President of the Board of Directors of Native Americans for Community Action in Flagstaff and a board member of the Flagstaff Shelter Services. She serves as the Chair of the Indigenous Peoples’ Advisory Council for Coconino County and a member of the Flagstaff Police Department’s Citizen Liaison Committee.