Meet the Community Resilience Program Team
The USET Community Resilience Program Team is focused on providing USET member Tribal Nations with technical support in their planning efforts toward increasing their community’s resiliency and adaptation. Meet the Community Resilience Team and our partners within USET.

Breanna Knudsen
Breanna Knudsen is the OERM Community Resilience Program Manager. She serves as a resource for USET Member Tribal Nations on resilience issues, including research of climate-related changes and those impacts to USET Member Tribal Nations, and supporting USET Member Tribal Nations’ community resilience strategies. She administers the USET Tribal Community Resilience Program, and serves alongside Dr. Steph Courtney in the NE CASC and the SE CASC, as Tribal Community Resilience Liaisons. Breanna is a citizen of the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians (MI). You can reach Breanna at bknudsen@usetinc.org.

Steph Courtney
is the Community Resilience Liaison. Dr. Courtney serves as a technical expert on environmental issues, natural resources, and community well-being to Tribal Nations in the USET region, and more broadly in the combined region comprising the Department of Interior’s SECASC and NECASC. She is responsible for developing and implementing a communication, education, and outreach program; identifying Tribal Nation research needs and priorities; and providing community planning support to Tribal Nations. You can reach Steph at scourtney@usetinc.org.

Tyler Everett
is the Forestry Resilience Specialist. Tyler is a citizen of the Mi'kmaq Nation and is a forester specializing in forest pests, namely the emerald ash borer (EAB), which is a current threat to cultural resources on Tribal lands in northern forests. His work with USET focuses on the impacts of environmental challenges to forests. You can reach Tyler at teverett@usetinc.org.

David Anderson
is the OERM Agriculture Senior Technical Assistance Specialist. Environmental changes have already impacted our food systems by extending the growing degree days, increasing or decreasing rainfall, causing unpredictable spring weather, and shifting the regions of pests and invasive species. This has led to the start of collaborative projects between the USET Community Resilience Program and the Food Sovereignty Program to address these issues with adaptation and mitigation. If you want to connect with us about environmental challenges to your landscapes, food system, or farm, please feel free to reach out to David at at danderson@usetinc.org.

Rebecca Naragon
is USET’s Economic Development Director. Community and business recovery activities allow for many opportunities for collaboration between Environmental and Economic Development programs. In this spirit, USET OERM and the Community Resilience Program have been working with USET’s Office of Economic Development over the past few years on facilitating training workshops and camps, resource and network brokering, and supply chain technical assistance. Rebecca Naragon is a citizen of the Poarch Band of Creek Indians and can be reached at rnaragon@usetinc.org.