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For over 20 years, I have worked on both the grassroots level and within the academy on a wide variety of issues, including….

• Indigenous food sovereignty;
• Native American wellness and public health;
• Native American economic hybridity & social entrepreneurship;
• Cultural revitalization theory and practice;
• Indigenous and Participatory Action Research methodologies;
• Global food movements and food sovereignty;
• Sustainable and culturally-based community development;
• Community empowerment and quantum leadership.

I am currently Professor of Practice at the University of Arizona with a dual appointment in the Department of American Indian Studies and at the McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship. I come to the UofA after 20 years of grassroots work within the Tohono O’odham community.  From 1996 through 2015, I was honored to work at Tohono O’odham Community Action (TOCA), a grassroots organization I helped found. TOCA’s community-based work has been recognized nationally and internationally as one of the most innovated and effective programs of its kind. I currently serve on the Leadership Council of the Native American Food Sovereignty Alliance (NAFSA).