Using community-driven research, I help Indigenous communities answer questions that are important to them.
We'll learn together.
Community-Centered Research
Community participation assures shared power and decision-making between the community and the research team. Partnerships ensure that research proceeds in a manner that is culturally sensitive, relevant, respectful, responsive, equitable, and reciprocal to share the benefits between research partners and Indigenous communities.
Future Generations
Tribes are strengthening their governance over child welfare in diverse ways. Some are pushing against the norms of mainstream child welfare systems by redefining the family, putting responsibility for reporting abuse or neglect on the community as a whole, creating alternatives to removal and the termination of parental rights, and introducing cultural considerations into “the best interest of the child.”
Crossing Borders
Since 9/11, the security of border regions has become the focus of US border policy, and is an issue of intense political polarization in the USA. These areas are also the homeland to over 70 indigenous Nations whose territorial lands span the border regions between the USA, Mexico, and Canada. Native Nations and U.S. Borders provides an overview of the historical and contemporary effects of international borders on these indigenous Nations, and reviews some of the strategies used by indigenous Nations to respond to the border-related challenges.