Leadership:

•    Affiliated Faculty. Sustainability Studies Program. University of New Mexico. 2007-present.
•     Affiliated Faculty. Water Resources Program. University of New Mexico.2009-present.
•     Executive Board Member. Women Studies Program. University of New Mexico.2007-present.
•      Founding Member. Transdisciplinary Research Group. University of New Mexico. 2008-present.
•      Immediate-Past Chair. Environmental Communication Interest Group. Part of founding committee of the new Interest Group. Western States Communication Association. 2007-present.
•      International Communication Association Board of Directors. Graduate Student Board Member, International Communication Association. Two-year term, 2004-2006.
•      Co-Chair, International Communication Association Student Affairs Committee. Select, direct, and facilitate international committee members in collaborative work. 2004-2006.
•      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.

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.
•      MA Committee Member, UNM student TJ Martinez. TJ is focused on Hispanic agricultural ritual in NM.
•      PhD Program of Study committee member, UNM student Sachi Sekimoto. Sachi is investigating neo-nationalism, depopulation and racial anxiety, ambiguity, and aspiration in Japan.
•      PhD Program of Study committee member, UNM student Benjamin Mabe. Benjamin is exploring a post-critical pedagogical paradigm for communication studies.
•      Independent Research and Thesis Adviser, UW Comparative History of Ideas major Jennifer Estes. Jennifer researched experiences of immersive travel, interviewed people who 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 did an autoethnographic study of rural and urban people’s sense of place, and the dialectic of 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.

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, Journal of Language & Ecology.  2004-present.
•     Editorial Board, Kaleidoscope: A Graduate Journal of Qualitative Communication Research. 2005-2008. Reviewer, 2003.
•     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, 2009 Chicago IL; 2007 Chicago, IL; 2005, Boston, MA.