Presentations

• Climate Change and Human Health - Update from the Fifth National Climate Assessment (2024)
  1st Annual CAFÉ Climate & Health Conference, NIH Research Coordinating Center - Virtual
• Enhancing Data Sovereignty for Tribal Nations, Communities, and Organizations: UW Center for Environmental Health Equity (2024)
  Environmental Protection Agency, Regional Tribal Operations Committee - Region 10 EPA, Pacific Northwest
• NCA5 Webinar: Human Health and COVID-19 (2024)
  US Global Change Research Program - Virtual
• Before and Beyond Consultation (2023)
  National Wilderness Workshop 2023 - Missoula, Montana
• How do we incorporate TEK into federal decision-making? (2023)
  Yale School of the Environment and Yale Center for Environmental Justice - New Haven, Connecticut
• Tribal Water Sovereignty & Security Panel (2023)
  ATNI’s Changing Currents Tribal Water Summit - Coos Bay, Oregon
• Driven by Tribal Water Values: Strengthening Access to Sustainable and Safe Drinking Water in Partnership with the Akiak Native Community (2022)
  Climate Justice for All: Climate Justice through an Equity Lens Poster Exhibit, - Seattle, WA
• Tribal Water, Governance, Equity, and Opportunity (2022)
  Currents Virtual Summit Series - Virtual
• Caretaking as tradition: Indigenous technology, language, and identity for water, land, and environmental protection (2021)
  NAISA 2021 Virtual Conference - Virtual
• Climate change, water and resilience (2021)
  Climate Change Program Speaker Series, Washington University in St. Louis Climate Change Program - St. Louis, MO (virtual)
• Climate change, water, and resilience (2021)
  Climate Change Program Speaker Series - St. Louis, MO
• Curriculum Development for Native Youth: Sustainable Rainwater Harvesting Systems and Tribal Water Security (2021)
  Seattle University - Seattle, WA (virtual)
• Curriculum Development for Native Youth: Sustainable Rainwater Harvesting Systems and Tribal Water Security (2021)
  Seattle University - Seattle, WA
• Environmental Justice: Race, Poverty, and the Environment Water (2021)
  EJ Symposium presented by Washington State Attorney General’s Office and Gonzaga University - Virtual
• Executive Summary: Best Practices for Creating Compelling COVID-19 Related Messaging for AIAN Youth on TikTok (2021)
  UW iSchool NNAIK Initiative - Seattle, WA
• Indigenous People’s Water Security: From the Himalayan Mountains to the Arctic and the Pacific Ocean (2021)
  NAISA 2021 Virtual Conference - Virtual
• Tribal Environmental Health Summit 2021. (2021)
  Tribal Environmental Health Summit 2021 - Canceled due to COVID-19
• Tribally Driven Research for Designing Sustainable Rainwater Harvesting Systems (2021)
  Scholars Program Speaker Series, American Indian & Indigenous Studies (AIIS). - Virtual
• Tribally Driven Research for Designing Sustainable Rainwater Harvesting Systems (2021)
  Information School’s Tribal Water Security and Tribal Research Ethics Research Group - Seattle, WA
• Tribally Driven Research for Designing Sustainable Rainwater Harvesting Systems (2021)
  Scholars Program Speaker Series, American Indian & Indigenous Studies (AIIS) - (virtual)
• Water Stewards: Healing our water to heal our communities (2021)
  The 16th Annual Vine Deloria, Jr. Indigenous Studies Symposium - Bellingham, WA
• Water, Health, and Being Human (2021)
  Washington University in St. Louis Climate Change Program - St. Louis, MO
• Going Public: Opening Scholarship to All Symposium (2020)
  University of Washington Libraries - Seattle, WA
• Next Steps in Tribal Water Security on the Kuskokwim River (2020)
  Akiak Native Community Center - Akiak, AK
• Tribal Water Security: Health and Wellbeing. Contested Spaces. Power and Resistance in the Pacific Northwest. (2020)
  Pacific Northwest History Conference - Virtual
• A Global Collaboration: Challenges in Water Security and Indigenous Wellbeing (2019)
  School of Arts, Kathmandu University - Dhulikhel, Nepal
• Creating a Collaborative Space for Dialogue and Action (2019)
  Living Breath of wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ: Indigenous Foods and Ecological Knowledge Symposium (Native American and Indigenous Studies Association) - Seattle, WA
• Indigenous research ethics requirements: An examination of six Tribal Institutional Review Board Applications and Processes in the United States (2019)
  Provost Richard’s iSchool Visit - Seattle, WA
• Indigenous Stories from the Workplace (2019)
  Native Business Association Speaking Panel - Seattle, WA
• Indigenous Systems of Knowledge at the Intersections of the Information Science Field and Academia (2019)
  HASTAC 2019 Decolonizing Technologies, Reprogramming Education Conference - Vancouver, British Columbia
• Keynote Address (2019)
  Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples (2019 Western Humanities Alliance Conference) - Eugene, OR
• Land and Seascape Identities of Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Indigenous Adaptation (2019)
  People on the Land Landscape, Traditional Knowledge, Environment - Vancouver, British Columbia
• State of Water Security Among Washington State Tribes (2019)
  ATNI Fall Convention - Suquamish, WA
• Tribal Research Review Boards (2019)
  McNair Scholars Program, Undergraduate Research Symposium - Seattle, WA
• Tribal Water Security (2019)
  Provost Richard’s iSchool Visit - Seattle, WA
• Tribal Water Summit: Building Capacity in Indian Country by Honoring Our Relationship with Water (2019)
  He Au Honua: Indigenous Research Conference - Kahului, HI
• Using Science and Traditional Knowledge to Support Tribal Climate Policy (2019)
  The Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI) Climate Summit - Spokane, WA
• Environmental Justice for Washington and Beyond (2018)
  Annual UW Environmental Law Symposium - Seattle, WA
• Tribal Research and Data Governance: A Comparison of Six Tribal Institutional Review Board Applications in the United States (2018)
  National Ronald E. McNair Research Conference - Chicago, IL
• Tribal Research and Data Governance: A Comparison of Six Tribal Institutional Review Board Applications in the United States (2018)
  iSchool Research Fair - Seattle, WA
• Tribal Research and Data Governance: A Comparison of Six Tribal Institutional Review Board Applications in the United States (2018)
  Undergraduate Research Symposium - Seattle, WA
• Water Insecurity & Indigenous Peoples (2018)
  UW-Nepal Partnerships in Health Innovation: Multi-disciplinary Collaborations to Advance Population Health Symposium, UW Department of Bioengineering and Department of Global Health - Seattle, WA
• A tribally- based resiliency toolkit for community members. What makes Tribal Nations resilient to the impacts of climate change? (2017)
  8th Annual National Tribal Public Health Summit - Anchorage, AK
• Center for Native American Environmental Health Research Equity: Abandoned Hardrock Mines/Uranium Mines (2017)
  Regional Tribal Operations Committee (RTOC) EPA Region VIII - Rapid City, SD
• Climate Adaptation, Human Health and Environmental Health (2017)
  Climate Adaptation Workshop - Akiak, AK
• Community Resilience and Tribal Self-Determination (2017)
  Changing Current’s Tribal Water Summit: Summit to Sea, University of Oregon, Law School, Knight Law Center - Eugene, OR
• Creating a tribally-based toolkit to encourage community-driven resilience planning (2017)
  Pacific Northwest Climate Conference - Tacoma, WA
• Native American Knowledge Systems: Sovereign Rights, Protections and Protocols (2017)
  Integrating Exposure Science Across Diverse Communities - Research Triangle, NC
• Overview of Tribal Research in the Environmental Health Disparities Centers (2017)
  Integrating Exposure Science Across Diverse Communities - Research Triangle, NC
• Panel speaker on the intersections between race and ecologies (2017)
  University of Washington - Seattle, WA
• Perspectives on Genetic Research in the Navajo Nation (talk delivered by Dr. Claw) (2017)
  Navajo Nation Human Research Review Board Conference Navajo Nation Museum - Window Rock, Arizona
• Previous Genetics Research with the Navajo (2017)
  Tribal Data Sharing & Genetics Policy Development Workshop, UNM Comprehensive Cancer Center - Albuquerque, NM
• Summer Research Training by the Center for Native American Environmental Health Equity Research: Risk assessment (RA), risk management framework and gaps in addressing Native American health needs (2017)
  Native Environmental Health Equities Center Annual Meeting and EAC meeting - Rapid City, SD
• The UW Exposures, Diseases, Genomics and Environment (EDGE) Center 2017 Annual Retreat (2017)
  Campus-Community Capacity Building for Climate Change Research and Adaptation (NIEHS Supplement Project Talk), UW Center for Urban Horticulture - Seattle, WA
• Tribal Sovereign Rights, Knowledge and Data Protections and Protocols in the Environmental Health Sciences U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 10 (2017)
  U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 10 - Seattle, WA
• Tribally-Based Climate Adaptation and Resiliency Workshop in the Pacific Northwest (presented by Maggie Sander) (2017)
  National Adaptation Forum - Saint Paul, MN
• Working with tribes in Alaska and the Northwest (2017)
  Tribal Environmental Health Forum - Chandler, AZ
• Addressing Tribal Water Security Challenges in the 21st Century (2016)
  Tribal Leadership Summit, University of Washington - Seattle, WA
• Climate Change Science and Adaptation (2016)
  Nisqually Community Climate Adaptation Workshop - Olympia, WA
• Native American Perspectives on Environmental Stewardship and Climate Change (2016)
  Seattle King County Speaker Series - Seattle, WA
• Water Security, Climate, Tribal Environmental Health: Projecting Seven Generations (2016)
  Northern Arizona University Bridges’ End of the Summer Banquet - Flagstaff, AZ
• Engaging citizen scientists in the aftermath of disasters and emergence of new concerns (2015)
  International Society of Exposure Science (ISES) - Nevada, USA
• Food Sovereignty and Lessons from The Living Breath of wǝɫǝbʔaltxw (2015)
  Indigenous Ways of Knowing Cultural Food Practices and Ecological Knowledge Summit - Bellingham, WA
• Tribal community concerns, climate change and adaptation (2015)
  The National Conference of State Legislators Legislative Summit - Seattle, WA
• Water Security, Ecosystem Services, and Indigenous Well-Being in the Southwest and Pacific Northwest (2015)
  Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA) - Washington, DC
• Water security: the value of water and our well-being (2015)
  Centre for Aboriginal Health Research's Annual speaker series - Canada
• Employing an Interdisciplinary Approach to Food Security and Indigenous Health (2014)
  2014 Washington State Public Health Association Conference - Wenatchee, WA
• Groundwater Sustainability: Indigenous cultural values, uses and sources (2014)
  2014 Ground Water Protection Council Annual Forum - Seattle, WA
• The Value of Water (2014)
  Nisqually Community Development Committee Presentation Series - Washington, USA
• Using a value-based approach to inform environmental management decision making aimed to meet the water insecurity needs of two tribal communities (2014)
  2014 Annual Ph.D. Symposium: The Centrality of Urban in the Anthropocene: Implications for Graduate Research and Education - Seattle, WA
• Water Security, Climate Change and Indigenous Health (2014)
  9th Annual Vine Deloria, Jr. Indigenous Studies Symposium, Northwest Indian College - Bellingham, WA
• Water Security, Food Security, Health, and Self–Determination (2014)
  The Living Breath of Wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ” Indigenous Ways of Knowing Symposium, University of Washington - Seattle, WA
• What it means to be an Indigenous Scientist: My life and research experiences (2014)
  National Indian Center for Marine Environmental Research & Education at the Northwest Indian College - Bellingham, WA
• Building a Community-based Native Environmental Justice Program in Higher Education (2013)
  National Indian Education Association Conference - Rapid City, SD
• Indigenous Women in the Sciences (2013)
  “The Living Breath of Wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ” Indigenous Ways of Knowing Cultural Food Practices and Ecological Knowledge Symposium - Seattle, WA
• Self-determination, environmental health stewardship and water health disparities (2013)
  “Environmental Health Disparities and Environmental Justice” Series, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Partnerships for Environmental Public Health (PEPH) - Seattle, WA
• Self-determination, environmental health stewardship and water health disparities (2013)
  National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences’ Addressing Historical Inequities: Environmental Justice for Native Americans - Research Triangle Park, NC
• Water security among Pacific Northwestern and Southwestern Tribal Communities (2013)
  American Public Health Association (APHA) American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Caucus - San Francisco, CA
• A values-based approach to identifying disconnects between Tribal community values and water quality standards in the Pacific Northwest and Southwestern United States (2012)
  First Stewards Symposium - Washington, DC
• If we are going to survive, we have to do something! (2012)
  First Stewards Symposium, as Witness for West Coast Panel - Washington, DC
• Water Security and Sovereignty among Pacific Northwest and Southwestern Tribal nations (2012)
  2012 National Conference "Asking Permission to Come Ashore: Journeys to Indigenous Health and Health Research," Native Research Network - Seattle, WA
• A values-based approach to identifying disconnects between Tribal community values and water quality standards in the Pacific Northwest (2011)
  American Public Health Association (APHA) - Washington, DC
• Molecular Detection of Viable Bacterial Pathogens in Water By Ratiometric Pre-rRNA Analysis (2010)
  University of Washington Human Health and Oceans Center and NOAA's North West Fisheries Science Oceans and Human Health Center - Seattle, WA
• Microbial Source Tracking in the Tulalip Bay (2007)
  National Environmental Health Association - Atlantic City, NJ
• Microbial Source Tracking in the Tulalip Bay (2007)
  Northwest Indian College - Bellingham, WA
• Microbial Source Tracking in the Tulalip Bay (2007)
  Society of the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science - Kansas City, KS