Experience and Work History
Oak Human Rights Fellow, Colby College, Waterville, Maine
August 2022-December 2022
Received fellowship to raise awareness on issues of Indigenous rights, and share the ways colonialism and the formation of modern nation-state borders have created mass human rights violations for Indigenous peoples and made cultural survival increasingly difficult. Engaged in lectures, student mentorship, teaching, and community outreach.
Navajo Nation Human Rights Commissioner
Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission, St. Michaels, AZ
August 2016-2020
Appointed as a Community-At Large Commissioner for the Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission, established to collect data regarding discriminatory acts against citizens of the Navajo Nation by private citizens, businesses, organizations, and foreign governments within and outside the Navajo Nation.
Consultant
Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN)
January 2017 - present
Developed, planned, and facilitated The Indigenous Women’s Divestment Delegation, an international divestment delegation, to Norway and Switzerland regarding indigenous human rights abuses in the United States.
Law Clerk
Southwest Indian Law Clinic, Albuquerque, NM
August - December 2014
Completed clinical work providing criminal defense within the Pueblo of Laguna Tribal Court, assisted with tribal enrollment within the Navajo Nation, and provided mediation for clients from the Pueblo of Jemez.
John D.B. Lewis Law Fellow
Indian Law Resource Center, Washington, D.C.
June - August, 2014
Completed a sixteen-week clerkship in Washington D.C. focusing on legal reform in Indian country, conservation, and indigenous human rights in Mesoamerica.
Young Lawyers Division Summer Fellow, Law Clerk
DNA People's Legal Services, Window Rock, AZ
June - August 2013
Engaged in a ten-week clerkship focusing on predatory lending, defamation, protection of sacred sites, and repatriation of items of cultural patrimony.
Consultant
University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY
May - June 2012
Developed, planned, and facilitated an international studies program on Maori sovereignty for the American Indian Studies Department.
Fulbright U.S. Graduate Fellow
Hamilton, New Zealand
June 2009-2010
Completed a year-long fellowship program studying and conducting research regarding indigenous customary law and traditional justice systems in Aotearoa, New Zealand.