Ana Lucia Gonzalez (Foothill College)

Is a Latina from L.A. who grew up in a neighborhood where kids weren’t expected to go to college. Ella venció las probabilidades and transferred to UCLA to pursue archaeology; Earned a MA degree from University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in Anthropology. She codirects el Proyecto Arqueológico Pambamarca en Ecuador and the CIC-ASS project in Ireland where she also runs the archaeology field lab.

Sam Connell (Foothill College)

Is a Foothill College professor and every summer brings students to places like Ireland, Ecuador, Belize and Hawaii. He cannot believe he gets paid for what he does. He also used to idolize Tom Brady but now finds himself rooting against his hero.

Daniel Cearley, MA (Las Positas)

Dan oversees all survey and geophysical work on the program from processing the data to visualizing our results. As the map maker of the project, he directs our efforts to leverage program and public GIS data sets for the project and aids the community using this information in their own heritage efforts. Dan is a professor at Las Positas College and loves drones.

Hannah Dibner

Hannah earned an MA from Chaminade University in Forensic Sciences. Her main topic of interest is faunal taphonomy. We are honored to have her on the program this Spring. She recently moved back to the Bay Area from Hawaii where she was working as chief compliance office for the Central ID Lab on Hickam AFB which is part of the DPAA (Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency)

Michael Wilcox (Stanford University, Native American Studies

Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity)

He serves as the Tribal Historic Preservation Officer for the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe of the San Francisco Bay Area and is a founding board member of the Muwekma Ohlone Cultural Preservation Land Trust.

His current research involves documentation of Indigenous Rebellions and in the San Francisco Bay Area as well as ‘Aina based research and education with Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) communities in Hamakua Hawaii. He is working on an interdisciplinary project about the Indigenous History of the San Francisco Bay Area (In Prep) “Claiming Home, Reclaiming History: Rebellion, Mobility and the Narratives of Invisibility Among California’s Bay Area Natives. (Monograph).