Student, activist and healer: This Native veteran fights for mental health, social justice

May 27, 2022

Military veteran and current WSU Ph.D. student Greg Urquhart, a member of the Eastern Band Cherokee Tribe, is a 2011 UW Tacoma psychology alumnus, and is serving his counseling practicum in the UW Tacoma student mental health office.

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