Marla Mahkimetas - YEP Prevention Specialist, Education Outreach

	Marla attained her Associate Degree at MATC in Milwaukee and moved on to receive her Bachelors Degree in Criminal Justice at UW-Milwaukee. While in Milwaukee, she interned at the Spotted Eagle High School, Milwaukee Health and Human Service-Youth Service Division, and the Milwaukee Indian Health Service-AODA Prevention Department. in 1997, Marla returned home to begin work as the Youth at Risk Director. A few years later, she became the Lead Instructor for the Menominee Ropes and Challenge Course, and during the school year, she substitute taught at both MISD and the Tribal School.
	On February 12, 2008, Marla started working at CMN as the Youth Empowerment Program-Prevention Specialist. She is working with our Menominee Youth to prevent delinquent behaviors in and out of school by working with a team to increasing positive intervention, mentorship, self-awareness, cultural education career development and skills in how to live a healthy lifestyle.
	Marla is an enrolled Menominee Tribal member and the daughter of Debra Mahkimetas and the late Leon P. Mahkimetas, Vietnam Veteran. She is a proud parent of a daughter in college and a son in middle school at MTS. One of Marla's passions is the performing arts. She spent eight years performing with the American Indian dance Theater and a few other dance companies that tour around the world. Now as her hobby and not so much her career, she is still involved in acting on stage, tv, and film. Aside from her family, work and hobbies, Marla finds time to coordinate cultural/family events like the 2007 Sacred Sites Run from Keshena to Milwaukee, bringing attention to the unlawful extrication of our ancestor's remains and sacred items. Respectfully, Marla continues to stay involved in her community.