Ashanti Moritz is the Behavioral Health Operation Coordinator at Urban Indian Center of Salt Lake. She was the business development and outreach director for Warrior Spirit Recovery, a drug and alcohol addiction recovery treatment center in Tooele, Utah, which has been a vital partner in USU Extension's efforts statewide to build a community approach to addressing the opioid crisis. As a diversity issue, people who use drugs are a marginalized population, and people with this disorder are routinely stigmatized and discriminated against. Many experience housing insecurity, encounters with law enforcement, and problems in their social lives, all of which compound the social exclusion that they experience. As an indigenous woman who is in long-term recovery herself, Moritz uses her life experiences to bring people in her community together to build a recovery-ready environment. She is a vital member of the Tooele Rural Opioid Healthcare Consortium, the Tooele Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome working group, and the Tribal and Rural Opioid Initiative and has been a courageous community partner and advocate for people with substance use disorders. Ashanti always shows up to community events to help with advice, financial support, volunteers, and promotion. She recognizes the importance of supporting community events, even those outside of the recovery community, because they create the community cohesion that is so necessary. She has served as a cultural guide to USU partners to address issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion. As a non-USU Extension employee, she has gone above and beyond to build inclusivity and diversity outreach in our opioid harm reduction. Her leadership has been a driving force for our efforts to reduce overdose death not just in Tooele, but in statewide tribal and rural efforts.