Stephanie Carroll Rainie
Operations Manager and
Senior Policy Associate, Native Nations Institute

Stephanie Carroll Rainie (Ahtna Athabascan) is Operations Manager and Senior Policy Associate (for the Native Nations Institute) at the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy at the University of Arizona. Her areas of administrative responsibility include Center policies and procedures; personnel issues, including staff recruitment, hiring, and reviews; graduate student employment; computer and telecommunications staff and infrastructure; facilities, space, furnishings, and other equipment; relations with neighbors; conferences and events; grant proposal preparation, submission, and monitoring; and the Center's faculty fellows program. Rainie also serves at the Center's liaison to the university's Human Subjects Protection Program and monitors implementation of the program's guidelines.

As Senior Policy Associate for the Native Nations Institute (NNI), she works with NNI's research team of staff and graduate students on a variety of projects in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

Rainie holds an A.B. from Cornell University (1996) in biology and society, with concentrations in health and society and American Indian studies, and a master's in public health (M.P.H.) from the University of Arizona College of Public Health (2001) with a focus on American Indian policy and government, and community health issues.

Rainie joined the Udall Center 's staff in July 2001. Prior to that she worked in the health policy field in Boston and Washington, D.C., before moving to Arizona to continue her studies.