Chaos and the Road to Shalom

​Dr. Megkian Doyle is the Executive Director of Mountain Shadow Association at Native Non-profit serving on the Crow Reservation. Many of you have known her in her former roles as Lodge Grass High School teacher, MS​U professor, or as Director of the Regional Community Action Team at One Health, a federally qualified healthcare center. Dr. Doyle previously served as our Director of the Raising Places initiative, a 9-month family-centered design project that brought community members from Lodge Grass together to focus on child-centered strategies for key community challenges. As the team’s work has progressed, they have formed a non-profit, Mountain Shadow, seen one of their members elected Mayor of Lodge Grass, initiated 9 community change projects, and begun the process of building a family healing center grounded in an ecosystems model of whole family health. Megkian lives in Bozeman, with her husband and five children, all members of the Crow Tribe.