Leadership:

•      Immediate-Past Chair. Environmental Communication Interest Group. Part of founding committee of the new Interest Group. Western States Communication Association. 2007-present.
•      Executive Board Member. Women Studies. University of New Mexico. 2007-present.
•      ICA Board of Directors. Graduate Student Board Member, International Communication Association. Represented worldwide graduate student member interests, published a monthly newsletter column, and organized and hosted networking sessions, workshops, orientation seminars, presentation panels, and graduate student receptions at annual conference. Two-year term, 2004-2006.
•      Co-Chairperson, International Communication Association Student Affairs Committee. Select, direct, and facilitate international committee members in collaborative work. 2004-2006.
•      Founder and Director. Nature, Culture, and Public Scholarship Research Collaborative, a transdisciplinary network of 55 faculty, graduate students, and practitioners engaged in interdisciplinary and applied critical cultural research approaches to the human relationship with the environment. 2004-2007.
•      Co-creator/trainer of intercultural communication-guided sojourner workshop. Contracted by University of New Mexico's International Student Center to present day-long workshop to students going on foreign exchange for 2000-2001. University of New Mexico. Albuquerque, NM. May 2000.
•      Internship director. Created and facilitated internship program at The New Mexico Jewish Link. Interns ranged in age from 16 to 67, and were Jewish, Native American, Asian American, and Euro-American. Several interns were first my students at UNM. Interns went on to Boston Globe, Jerusalem Post, Kol Israel radio, Ha'Aretz, and national public relations positions. Albuquerque, NM. 1996-2002.

Current and Selected Past Mentorship:

•      PhD Adviser, UNM student Claudia Anguiano. Claudia's research program critically examines discourses of immigration in the United States.
•      PhD Committee Member, UNM student Elizabeth Dickinson. Elizabeth’s research takes a critical cultural approach to human-nature relations and environmental communication.
•      PhD Committee Member, UNM student Alice Loy. Alice is examining coalition building and leadership within environmental advocacy groups.
•      Program of Study committee member, UNM student Sachi Sekimoto. Sachi is investigating neo-nationalism, depopulation and racial anxiety, ambiguity, and aspiration in Japan.
•      Program of Study committee member, UNM PhD student Benjamin Mabe. Benjamin is exploring a post-critical pedagogical paradigm for communication and cultural studies.
•      Independent Research and Thesis Adviser, UW Comparative History of Ideas major Jennifer Estes. Jennifer researched experiences of immersive travel, interviewed people who have sojourned, and created and performed a one-woman show based on her research. 2006-2007.
•      Thesis Adviser, UW Comparative History of Ideas major Brett Zimmerman. Brett researched and did an autoethnographic study of rural and urban people’s sense of place, and the ontological and embodied dialectic between belonging to a place versus property ownership. 2006-2007.
•      Research Director, UW Communication majors Ben Sommers, Jackie Jensen, Michelle Zimmer, and Grace MacMillan (Winter 2007); Gerardo Fernandez, Michelle Labuwi, and Grace MacMillan (Fall 2006); Kristine Mroczek and Ashley Graeber (Spring 2006). Trained them in library and database research, qualitative coding, and fieldnote and recording transcription to assist in research on culture, communication, and human relations with nature.
•      Thesis Adviser, UW Comparative History of Ideas major Erin McGee. Erin’s project was academic and activist and focused on comparative theory and strategies of organization in collectively run organizations; Along with her paper and presentation, Erin collaboratively created a grocery buyers’ cooperative for her urban neighborhood with no grocery store. Fall quarter 2006.

Selected Publication and Presentation Service:

•      Textbook Reviewer.  Review of Human Communication in Society, 2nd Edition, by Alberts, Nakayama, and Martin. August 2008.
•     Editorial Board. Green Theory and Praxis: The Journal of Ecopedagogy. 2008-present.
•     Editorial Board & Ad Hoc Reviewer, Journal of Language & Ecology.  One of 12 academics from 11 countries on board. 2004-present.
•     Editorial Board & Ad Hoc Reviewer, Kaleidoscope: A Graduate Journal of Qualitative Communication Research. Editorial Board, January 2005-2008. Reviewer, September 2003, 2008.
•     Ad Hoc Reviewer, Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture. 2008.
•    Ad Hoc Reviewer, Western Journal of Communication. 2008.
•    Ad Hoc Reviewer, Communication, Culture and Critique. 2008.
•     Ad Hoc Reviewer, Journal of International and Intercultural Communication. 2008.
•      Reviewer, Environmental Communication Division competitive papers, National Communication Association, 2007 Chicago, IL; 2005, Boston, MA.
•      Chairperson, refereed presentation panel on holy, heritage, and slave global tourism. Language and Global Communication Conference, July 2005. Cardiff University, Wales, United Kingdom.
•      Reviewer, 14th World Congress of Applied Linguistics. Hosted by American Association of Applied Linguistics. Language and Ecology Division. 2005. Madison, WI. USA.
•      Reviewer, Language and Intercultural Communication, a Europe-based international journal. Area: environmental discourse. March 2004 - present.
•      Panelist, "Life as an RA." Department of Communication TA/RA Orientation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. September 2003.
•      Panelist, "How to take the PhD General Exams." Department of Communication Graduate Student brownbag seminar. University of Washington, Seattle, WA. May 2005.