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Ocean Waves

Experience

EDUCATION

M.A. University of Alaska Fairbanks. 2016. College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, Political

Ecology of Fisheries: Interdisciplinary Program. 4.0 GPA. Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society. Kodiak Seafood and Marine Science Center. Kodiak, Alaska.

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B.A. Lewis and Clark College. 2009. Department of Sociology and Anthropology. Portland,

Oregon.

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

  • Business Owner, Ringer Consulting. Kodiak, Alaska. 2024 – Present

  • Archaeologist, Private Contractor, Alutiiq Museum & Archaeological Repository. Kodiak, Alaska. 2020 – Present

  • Business Owner, F/V North Star, Commercial Fishing, North Star Harvest LLC. Kodiak, Alaska. 2012 – Present

  • Fisheries Anthropologist, Research Associate & Program Coordinator, University of Alaska Fairbanks. Kodiak Seafood and Marine Science Center. Kodiak, Alaska. 2016 – 2024

  • Fisheries Research Consultant, Private Contractor, Ocean Strategies. Kodiak, Alaska. 2018 – 2020

  • Coastal Community Organizer, Alaska Sea Grant, Marine Advisory Program. Kodiak, Alaska. 2016 – 2017

  • Research Assistant and Graduate Student, University of Alaska Fairbanks. Kodiak Seafood and Marine Science Center. Kodiak, Alaska. 2014 – 2016

  • Project: Graying of the Fleet in Alaska’s Fisheries: Defining the Problem and Assessing Alternatives, Kodiak, Alaska

  • Fleet Dispatcher & Administrative Harbor Assistant, Port of Kodiak. Kodiak, Alaska. 2013 – 2014

  • Archaeologist and Educational Outreach Manager, Alutiiq Museum & Archeological Repository. Kodiak, Alaska. 2011 – 2013

  • Subsistence Resource Specialist I, Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Division of Subsistence. Fairbanks, Alaska. 2010 – 2011

  • Fisheries Technician II, Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Division of Sport Fish. Kodiak,

  • Alaska. 2010

  • Archaeologist, RK Harritt and Associates. Anchorage, Alaska. 2010.

  • Archaeologist, University of Alaska Fairbanks. West Teklanika and Swan Point, Alaska. 2009

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AWARDS AND RECOGNITION

  • National Sea Grant Association, Research to Application project award: Graying of the Fleet in Alaska’s Fisheries: Defining the Problem and Assessing the Alternatives. September 2018.

  • Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society. University of Alaska Fairbanks, College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences. Spring 2016.

  • Gil Kushner Student Travel Award. Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting. April,

  • 2016. Vancouver, BC.

  • Student Award Scholarship for travel and tuition, International Comparative Rural Policy

  • Studies Summer Institute. Dublin, Ireland. June-July 2015. WERC-Human Dimensions Laboratory Institute of Northern Engineering, University of Alaska Fairbanks.

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TRAININGS

  • Learning to Host Dialogues: Indigenizing Salmon Management and Racial Equity in Salmon Management. First Alaskans Institute, Dillingham, Alaska. February 2018.

  • Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI) Human Subjects Research Educational Program, University of Alaska Fairbanks

  • Atlas ti. Qualitative Data Analysis Program

  • OSHA Hazwopper

  • SERVS & CISPRI Oil Spill Response

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LEADERSHIP & COMMUNITY SERVICE

  • Recharge Our Community’s Economy Steering Committee Member, Kodiak Economic Development Corporation (2025)

  • Commercial Fishing Crewmember Training Workshop Steering Committee Member (2025) 

  • Kodiak Animal Shelter Volunteer (2023 – Present)

  • Adapt Kodiak: Coastal Resilience Workshop Steering Committee Member (2021)

  • Kodiak Area Marine Science Symposium Steering Committee Member (2017)

  • Kodiak Salmon Life Co-Founder(2014 – 2024)

  • Kodiak Archipelago Rural Regional Leadership Forum Fisheries Advisor (2015 – 2020)

  • Kodiak Fisheries Advocacy Committee Fisheries Advisor (2015 – 2020)

  • Kodiak Harvest Food Cooperative Fisheries Advisor(2016 – 2017)

  • Kodiak Community Health Center Board of Directors, Secretary (2015 – 2017)

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