He finished his Ph.D. in Cross-Cultural Education and Futures Studies as a National Science Foundation and IGERT Fellow in Resilience and Adaptation at UAF. He also has a M.A. in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies. He has lived in Fairbanks for the past eleven years while earning an M.F.A. in Poetry and completing his Ph.D. Additionally, in Spring 2011 he received a six-month TUNDRA graduate fellowship to work with scientists at The Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø to incorporate educators and students in research projects across the Arctic. Currently, he teaches Teaching Methods, Multiculturalism, and Developing Literacy in the Content Areas courses to student teacher candidates in the SOE.