B.A. - 1979 CWU - Religious Studies/Art. I am currently working on another B.A. degree - this time in Anthropology.

I was born and raised on the Yakama Indian Reservation. My passions include fishing, Web-page design/development, and Archaeology. My hope is to retire one day from the university and follow my passion of Archaeology of the American Southwest and Pacific Northwest.

For social endeavors, I served for sixteen years on the Board of Directors for the Western Art Association, which resulted in my love for Western art. I truly enjoyed working with the artists. For the last fifteen years I have served as a Docent for CHCI - the Chimpanzee and Human Communication Institute, here on campus. From March through November I give one-hour educational presentations twice a month about our world-renown Chimpanzees that communicate using American Sign Language.

For a number of years I have served as a community member on the Kittitas County Juvenile Diversion Board. As community members, we meet with juveniles and their parents/guardians regarding arrests that have been made. These charges range from Minor in Possession to Domestic Violence to Shoplifting. We listen to the case, discuss it with the juvenile and parents/guardians, and then discuss it between ourselves (three board members.) After discussion, we set what we feel is appropriate justice, including community service, counseling, and victim-offender mediation or we decide to deny Diversion, which sends the juvenile through the regular court system. I am, also, very active with my church, serving on the October Festival committee and as a Minister of the Eucharist.

The first job I ever had was as a field-hand working in beets and mint in the Yakima Valley. Not glamorous, but definitely dirty.

It is a toss-up as to what I consider my least favorite job. It would either have to be the one weekend stint I did as a waitress or the ten years I spent my summers irrigating on the farm I lived on - AFTER a full day of work at the university.

Probably my favorite job (that has paid) has been when I occasionally have a chance to exercise my abilities in Web design/maintenance and marketing. When I get the opportunity to do these things, it fulfills my artistic and technical inclinations and expands my daily projects out of the usual and into the exceptional. September 15, 2007 made 30 years I have worked for the Univeristy. On April 1st of 2008 I joined the Sociology Department. Working at the University has been my longest job.