Brief Description of Education & Experience
I am currently an assistant professor, jointly appointed in the Environmental Science, Policy, and Management (ESPM) and Ethnic Studies Departments at UC Berkeley. I received a BA in Anthropology from the University of Washington in 2007, an MA in Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2010, and a PhD in Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley in 2017. I have participated in and/or directed/co-lead field and lab projects, primarily in the Central Coast region of California since the beginning of my graduate career. I have also participated in some archaeological fieldwork in Southwest Washington State and upstate New York. My primary research area, however, is California. I am experienced in research design and report writing, consultation and collaboration between Tribes and agencies, pedestrian and geophysical survey, GPS/GIS mapping, archaeological excavation, paleoethnobotanical sampling and flotation, historic and pre-contact artifact analysis, and XRF analysis of obsidian. I am also Coast Miwok, enrolled in the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria, and I have a strong grounding in California plant identification, Indigenous stewardship, and California Native foodways.
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