As an Indigenous person, I am passionate about conducting research that is led by and helps Indigenous Nations and communities. A lot of my work has been in the Arctic. My master's work was in Greenland. My PhD work was with the Ninilchik Village Tribe in Alaska. 

My topical and methodological expertise includes:

• Sustainability Science

• Futures Research

• Resilience/Adaptation

• Youth Development

• Indigenous Culture as a Preventative/Protective Factor

• Environmental Justice and Land/Water Management in Alaska

• Federal Indian Law (not to the level of a lawyer)

• Boundary Spanning (Translator of IK to WS and WS to IK holders)

• Science Diplomacy: communicating IK and WS to policy makers

• Co-Production of Knowledge

• Indigenous Methods and Methodologies

• Researcher, evaluator, training and technical assistance provider

• Participatory Methods: (CBPR, TBPR, co-designed metho with community, youth participatory action research, creating and leading workshops and trainings, etc.)

• Developing data collection strategies

• Qualitative methods (interviews/focus groups/talking circles/ futures scenarios/ storytelling/ethnography)--analysis through grounded theory and other coding methods in NVivo or Excel software

• Quantitative methods (survey design, descriptive statistics, significance tests)

• Writing: grants, academic articles, reports, briefs, factsheets, community products, plain and scientific language