Affiliations

• Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA), member, session organizer, 09/01/2021 - present

In the Media

• Dark Sky Studies Minor Visits Helper, Utah. 03/23/2023. https://plan.cap.utah.edu/students/dark-sky-studie...
• Drought is diminishing firewood access for Navajo wood haulers. 09/21/2022. https://www.knau.org/knau-and-arizona-news/2022-09...
• Red Rock Radio. 12/07/2021. https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-6m88r-114d3bf
• "Utah Navajo Commission discusses federal funds, water settlements, and firewood issues". 11/30/2021. https://sjrnews.com/native-american-issues/utah-na...
• "Celebrating Dark Skies". 11/02/2021. https://www.insiderutah.com/articles/celebrating-d...
• "Utah is ready for its ‘dark sky’ moment as tourists leave the crowds behind to see the Milky Way". 08/16/2021. https://www.sltrib.com/news/2021/08/15/utah-is-rea...
• "Indigenous management of woodlands and wildfires". 09/18/2020. https://www.moabsunnews.com/news/article_2deb4b92-...
• "Helper City Works Toward Becoming a Dark Sky Community". 02/16/2020. https://etvnews.com/helper-city-works-toward-becom...
• "Interacting with the land: historic and current land uses in the Southwest". 10/20/2017. https://beta.prx.org/stories/243870

Professional Service

• Society for Applied Anthropology. Conference Session Co-chair, "Applying Human Behavioral Ecology in Times of Rapid Change". 08/15/2021 - present
• Society of American Archaeology. Co-chair of session, "Life is Risky: Human behavioral ecological approaches to variable outcomes". 07/01/2019 - 04/30/2021

Outreach

• Virtual Q&A session with K-12 students as part of Natural History Museum of Utah's educational outreach titled "Problem Solvers of the Past." Dialogue focused on human ecology and the central role of Indigenous knowledge holders. https://nhmu.utah.edu/educators/staycurious/firstpeoples. 05/15/2021 - 05/15/2021

Community Partnership

• Bluff, Utah Planning and Zoning, Dark Skies Workshop. 11/15/2021 - present
• Entrada Institute, Dark Sky Community Support. 11/01/2021 - present
• Helper, Utah Dark Skies Designation Support. 12/01/2019 - present
• Utah Dine Bikeyah, "Dynamic Impacts of Environmental Change and Biomass Harvesting on Woodland Ecosystems and Traditional Livelihoods". 09/01/2016 - present