¿Qué hubo pues?

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When not Working I'm hanging out with my family

I research the Americas and Indigenous history. I was born and raised in the Kodiak Archipelago and graduated from S.A.V.E. II secondary school in Anchorage on the Alaska mainland just before I turned 20 years old.  I began attending community college here in lower North America when I was 25. An original shareholder in the Alaska Native Claims Settlement corporations Koniag and Leisnoi Village, I am also enrolled in the federally recognized Tangirnaq Native Village aka the Woody Island tribe. With pride, I serve the Alutiiq people on the board of directors of the Koniag education foundation, an organization that promotes the educational goals and economy of the Koniag Alutiiq and their descendants. I am also grateful to serve on a Koniag shareholder committee.

​I hold undergraduate degrees in English, Art, and Urban Planning, Masters Degrees in English and Ethnic Studies and a PhD in Ethnic Studies for University of California, Berkeley. I have been earning a certificate in Financial Planning and hope to finish that early 2025. I am an assistant professor of Ethnic Studies and have held the prestigious postdoctoral fellowship in American Indian Studies at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign in 2011 and was the 2017-2018 Katrin H. Lamon fellowship residential scholar at the School for Advanced Research, in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In 2023-2024 I was a Presidential Leadership Fellow at the University of Utah.