Karan Kolb is a member of the Rincon Band of Luiseno Indians. She is a retired Social Services Director at Indian Health Council Inc. overseeing the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) program for a seven Tribe consortium and is responsible for the delivery of many programs under the realm of social services. Karan has over many years of experience working with Tribal Governments and families in the areas of family preservation, court advocacy and reunification services as well as parenting and child welfare. She has developed the ICWA program by building communication and collaboration with partnerships with county, universities and tribal agencies championing the need for prevention services and training to tribes. Karan has participated in San Diego County’s System Improvement Plan (SIP) and California State Disproportionality projects which included strategies aimed at reducing the number of Native American children in the child welfare system and improving the outcomes for Native foster children. She is a member of 7th Generation, a workgroup of various child welfare and community partners working together collaboratively to improve child welfare services for Native children and their families. She is involved with Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children or (CSEC) Collaborative and Initiatives and served as a board member of the Strong Hearted Native Women’s Coalition representing the Rincon Tribe. Karan serves as a Community Advisory member for San Diego State University School of Social Work and has been recently appointed as the delegate for tribal consultation with the state of California. She is a member of the ICWA state workgroup and participant in the California Indian Family Task force through the California Attorney General’s Bureau of Children’s Justice. She serves on the Native American Research Internal Review board and a Tribal Liaison for California State Covered California. Most recently she is a collaborative partner with the John Hopkins Pediatric Infant Care Collaborative with Indian Health Services implementing ACEs training and Trauma Informed Care throughout the health services as a Co-Director of the Prevention and Early Intervention Team and Interdepartmental Case Management Team crossing care into all departments. She earned her MA in Psychology with the University of the Rockies. She is the mother of 2 children and a loving grandma.