I am a Research Assoicate with the Center for Pacific Northwest Studies at Western Washington University. Additionally I work as a consultant for regional tribes and First Nations communities in the Pacific Northwest.

My research is focused building capacity for environmental and cultural sustainability, particularly for Native American populations. I practice applied Anthropological research, with Native communities in Washington, Alaska, British Columbia and California. I use several theoretical frameworks to anchor my research including:

• Cultural resource management
• Applied research
• Environmental governance
• Treaty rights, sovereignty and self-determination
• Knowledge mobilization in the digital public sphere
• User-centered design
• Language ideology

My primary research interests include:

• Intersections of cultural and environmental sustainability
• Race, alterity and discrimination for Native Americans
• Cultural resource management, archiving and dissemination
• Memory institution technology design and functionality
• Implications of digital cultural resource management for Indigenous populations
• Technology and the Internet
• Endangered language documentation, preservation and dissemination
• Climate change

Some of the methodologies I use in my research include:

• Participatory Action Research
• Decolonizing and Indigenous research
• Ethnography