She holds a joint appointment between UAA’s Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER) and its Department of Anthropology and teaches courses in cultural anthropology, applied anthropology, and on the topic of culture and globalization. In her position as an applied public policy researcher at ISER, she has examined community impacts of federal restructuring in Alaska’s fisheries, conducted local knowledge and resource management studies, traced rural-urban migration patterns in Alaska, examined rural youth aspirations, and is conducting youth and educational program evaluations. She is currently leading a 3-year National Science Foundation project examining higher education scholarship outcomes for Bering Sea community residents.