Christina Urbina Gargus

Tina Gargus has joined the Indigenous Resilience Center (IRes) as a Grant & Project Coordinator where she will focus on the development and implementation of program components of the IRes Climate Hub. In her role, she will administer community mini grants, provide grant writing training, and manage post-award activities for community organizations, tribal entities and non-profit organizations to address climate impacts. 

Prior to joining IRes, Tina was the Program Manager for the Office of Native American Advancement & Tribal Engagement involved with implementing priority projects that advances the University of Arizona’s institutional commitment to Native American advancement. Her experience at the University includes the administration of grant application cycles for several environmental research grants and managing the Carson Scholars graduate scholarship program dedicated to training the next generation of environmental researchers in the art of public communication. Tina also provided academic coordination for the Global Change Graduate Interdisciplinary Minor Program. 

Tina began her career at the U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution, a program of the Morris K. Udall Foundation, where she worked from 1999–2013. There she provided federal contract administration and small group meeting facilitation for national environmental projects that included federal tribal consultation policy guidelines. She provided programmatic support to the National Environmental Conflict Resolution Advisory Committee to develop their final report on the implementation of Section 101 of the National Environmental Policy Act.  

Tina holds a B.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Arizona, combining her passion for storytelling with her commitment to environmental and Native American community advocacy.