Caroline Dailey is an enrolled member of the Pueblo of Isleta and resides in her Tribal community. She serves on the CSVANW Board of Directors and recently assumed the role of Board Chair which she embraces and serves with honor and gratitude. For almost 24 years, she served her Tribal community as a Program Director providing services for Native children, youth and families. Prior to that, she served as a Clinical Director for an adolescent treatment program in southern New Mexico and resided in Las Cruces, New Mexico with her family for almost 18 years.

Currently, Ms. Dailey in a full time faculty instructor with the Facundo Valdez School of Social Work at New Mexico Highland’s University located at the Albuquerque campus. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with the State of New Mexico. She has provided classroom and field placement instruction and supervision for students enrolled in the undergraduate and graduate Schools of Social Work at New Mexico State University and New Mexico Highlands University. Ms. Dailey is also licensed as a social worker with the New Mexico Public Education Department (NMPED) to provide social work services at the elementary, middle school and high school levels for special needs children. Currently, she is working with middle schoolers at a Charter School in Albuquerque on a part time basis.

Ms. Dailey’s areas of passion which keeps her grounded begins with her heartfelt foundation in raising three beautiful children through adulthood and cherishing moments with them and her grandchildren. From those moments, everything else follows including her passion in advocacy work related to child and family services, domestic violence victims and survivors in Indian communities and social justice issues related to minority populations and underprivileged and underserved youth who continue to experience marginalization. She embraces the professional relationships that she has developed and sustained with other professionals in the field and values the young people rising to the forefront of confronting the inequities that exist in Native communities. She considers herself to be a lifelong learner as she recognizes that those we work to serve are the experts and true champions.