Position Title
Ph.D. Candidate
Paiute and Shoshone enrolled member of the Susanville Indian Rancheria
NAS PhD Candidate
M.A. University of California, Davis, Native American Studies
B.A. California State University, Sacramento, Social Sciences Minor in Native American Studies
Working Title: Stories from the land: Susanville Indians dispossession and acquisition of land in Northeastern California
AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS
Western History Association Indian Scholarship, Western History Association, Fall 2019
Racial Capitalism Mellon Research Fellow, University of California, Davis May 2019
Margrit Mondavi Summer Research Fellow, University of California, Davis, May 2019
Graduate Student of Color Research Award, University of California, Davis, May 2019
Women’s Resources and Research Center, University of California, Davis, May 2019
Awarded for Professors for the Future Fellow, University of California, Davis, March 2019
Nominated for Professors for the Future, University of California, Davis, February 2019
Graduate Student Association's Spring 2019 Travel Award, February 2019
UC Davis Native American Studies Conference Travel Award, November 2018
Native American Studies and University of Waikato Student Exchange, March 2017
UC Davis Native American Studies Block Grant, August 2016- June 2017
UC Davis Yoche Dehe California Indian Endowment, Summer 2016
UC Davis Native American Studies Block Grant, August 2015-June 2016
Social Justice Initiative Mellon Foundation Research Funding, UC Davis Summer 2015
UC Davis Yoche Dehe California Indian Endowment, Summer 2015
PRESENTATIONS
“In the Lands of World Maker: Reclaiming Native Space in Northeastern California and Settler Colonialism,” University of Granada Religion and Spirituality in Society, Granada, Spain, March 2019
“Susanville Indian Higher Education Experience and Research that Benefits Home,” Cosumnes River College Native American Heritage Week, November 2018
“In the Lands of World Maker: Susanville Indians Land Allotment and Reclamation” Native American Studies Graduate Student Symposium, University of California, Davis, November 2018
Native American Graduate School Experience, American Indian Summer Institute, University of California, Davis, June 2018
“Reclaiming the Histories’ of the Land and People: Susanville Indian Rancheria Land Allotments and Buy Back,” Native Speaker Series, Humboldt State University, March 2018
“Learning to Love Again: Native Practices in Restoring Love in Our Communities” California Indian Conference 2016, San Diego State University, October 2016
“Susanville Allotments: Resource Exploitation on Native Lands” Mellon Foundation Research Project Presentation, University of California, Davis, January 2015
SERVICE
Native American Museum Summer Institute, University of California, Berkeley, June 2019
Co-Founder of Native American and Indigenous Advisory Committee to the Chancellor at UC Davis, May 2019
Graduate Student Facilitator, Beading Circle for the Native American Youth Conference at UC Davis, March 2019
Graduate Student Advisor, Native American Student Success Center, December 2018-Present
Vice President, Native American Graduate Student Association, June 2018- Present
Coordinator, Native American Graduate Student Symposium, August 2017- November 2018
President, Native American Studies Graduate Student Association, June 2016- June 2018
Graduate Student Representative, University of California, Davis, August 2016- June 2018
Counselor, American Indian Summer Institute, June 2017
Counselor, American Indian Summer Institute, June 2016
Coordinator, Native American Graduate Student Symposium August 2016- April 2017
Committee member, Native American Graduate Student Symposium, November 2014-April 2015