Professional Service

2021 - Present - Board Member, Western Copernicus Group Institutional Review Board

2013 – Present: Instructor, Summer Institute for Research Design in Librarianship, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA

2005 – Present: Lead Instructor - Research and Evaluation Training & Capacity Building. Select sample:

Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC University), US Army, Save the Children, EngenderHealth, Federal Reserve Bank, HIV Prevention Trials Network, USWDP – Afghanistan, Odum Institute (UNC), IRESCO (Cameroon), Healthscope (Tanzania), Muhimbili University (Tanzania), Premiere Personnel (Botswana), University College Hospital (Nigeria), USWDP (Afghanistan), Virtual Access (Ghana)

2000 - Adjunct Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia

Field Experience

• As a researcher at FHI 360, led and monitored research studies in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Botswana, Cameroon, Ghana, India, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Peru, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and the United States.

• Lived 12 months in coastal Ecuador conducting an ethnographic investigation on the political ecology of aquaculture and artisanal shrimp fishing.

• Lived five months in the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico implementing an ethnographic study on Maya belief systems.