Prior to joining the Indian Land Tenure Foundation, I served on faculty in the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management at Ball State, the Department of Native American and Indigenous Studies at Fort Lewis College, the Department of Environment and Society at Utah State University, and the Center for Cross Cultural Studies at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. I earned my bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Political Science with emphases on environmental policy and decision-making from Ball State University. My doctoral degree is in Natural Resources and Environmental Management, also from Ball State University, with an emphasis in community engagement in land and natural resource issues.