My current service includes community historical preservation efforts where I focus on foodways, language, culture documentation and survivance. I am a founding member and current secretary of HoMinti Society, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting cultural awareness, service, community organizing, and education. I was honored to serve as an elected leader on the Choctaw-Apache Community of Ebarb tribal council (2011-2014), to work on various committees (2010-2022), and to be master of ceremonies (MC) for the children’s powwow at Ebarb community (K-12) public school and Arena Director for the Fall and Spring Powwows. I have been a substitute teacher (K-12) in Sabine Parish Schools. I have been recognized for my leadership and service contributions at university honor awards ceremonies and am a member of Golden Key International Honor Society and Omicron Delta Kappa National Leadership Honor Society.
Service to the Community
Secretary and founding member, Ho Minti Society, 2014-Present
Humanities Institute Executive Committee, 2025-2028
Organizer, Afro-Indigeneity Guest Lecture Series, The University at Buffalo and Online, Fall 2025
American Philosophical Society’s NASI Undergraduate Internship Selection Committee
Powwow Committee, Choctaw-Apache Community of Ebarb, 2011-2014; 2019-June 2021; 2023-Present
Founding member, Southeastern Indigenous Language Network (SILN)
Coordinator, Kabucha Toli/Stickball at Hampshire College, Fall 2021-Spring 2023
A community discussion (Robert Caldwell and Jean-Luc Pierite) on the film “Inhabitants: An Indigenous Perspective,” December 7, 2021
Panel Moderator, Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women,” Sixth Annual American Indian Heritage Day in Texas, 2018
Powwow Committee, U.T. Arlington, 2012-2015
Judge, National History Day at U.T. Artlington, 2012, 2013, 2014
Council member, Choctaw-Apache Community of Ebarb, 2011-2014
Delegate, National Congress of American Indians, 2011-2014
Digitization of the Ebarb Community Collection for CGHRC and Choctaw-Apache Community of Ebarb
Service to the Profession
Editorial Advisory Committee, Contemporary Issues and Methods in Indigenous Studies, University of Alabama Press, 2022-Present
Peer Review reader for University of Nebraska Press, Louisiana History, Journal of Texas History, Texas Gulf Historical and Biographical Record, OpenStax and other publishers, 2022-Present
Member, Board of Directors of the Louisiana Historical Association 2022-2025
Council Member, Society for the History of “Discoveries,” 2022-2024; 2025-2027
Organizer, Afro-Indigeneity Lecture Series, University at Buffalo, Fall 2025
Conference Planning Committee, Tulane Indigenous Studies Symposium, 2025
Organization of American Historians 2024 Program Committee
Committee Member, Hugh Rankin Prize Committee, Louisiana Historical Association, 2022-2023
Conference Planning Committee, NAISA Regional Gathering Spring 2022
Conference Planning Committee, Tulane NOCGS Indigenous Studies Symposium 2022
Board Member, Texas Map Society 2022-2024
Section Editor, Traversea a journal of Transatlantic History, 2013-2017
Symposium Planning Committee, Frontier Odyssey: the Lives and Legacy of Cynthia and Quanah Parker
Workshop Planning Committee, Indians at the Center: Rethinking US History and Geography, February 2017
Conference Planning Committee, Transatlantic History Conference, 2014, 2016
Service to the College/ University
Graduate Director of Indigenous Studies, University at Buffalo, 2023-Present
Network for Enriched Academic Relationships (NEAR) Mentor, University at Buffalo, 2024-Present
Academic Grievance Pool, College of Arts and Sciences Graduate Faculty, University at Buffalo, 2025-2026
Ph.D Excellence Oversight Committee (PEOC; a subcommittee of CAS Policy committee,) University at Buffalo, Fall 2025
Individual Development Awards Committee, UUP, University at Buffalo, 2023-Fall 2025
Curriculum Planning Committee, University at Buffalo Department of Indigenous Studies, 2022-Present
Faculty Search Committee, University at Buffalo Department of Indigenous Studies, 2022- Present
Moderator, “Governance and Recognition” and “Decolonizing Sports,” 15th Storytellers Conference, Niagara Falls NY April 5, 2025
Planning Committee, Indigenous Health Symposium (Joint project of the UB’s Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and the Department of Indigenous Studies) 2024
Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS) Faculty Mentor, Hampshire College, 2023-2024
Faculty Search Committee, NAIS position, Thematic Area: Decolonization, Racial Justice, and Liberation, Hampshire College, Spring 2023
Indigenous Student Mentor, University at Buffalo 2022
Moderator, Discussion of Inhabitants with Environments and Change Learning Collaborative Hampshire College, October 2022
Division III Showcase Faciliator, Hampshire College May 20, 2022
Nomination, Board of Trustees Business Operations Committee, Hampshire College 2022
Nomination, Faculty Speaker Spring 2022 Commencement, Hampshire College 2022
Planning Committee, Schocket Lecture and Pre-Lecture Seminar, Hampshire College 2022
Presenter, North American Indigenous Stickball Initiative, Environments and Change Learning Collaborative, Hampshire College, November 17, 2021
Organizer, Kabucha Toli/Stickball Demonstration at Library Lawn for Engage Confernce, Community Education Day at Hampshire College, October 20, 2021.
Student mentor, “We Make Community By Hand,” a course by William MacAdams funded by an NAIS/Mellon Grant, Spring 2021
Student Success Mentor, SOWELA Technical Community College, Fall 2019- Fall 2020
Graduation Committee, SOWELA Technical Community College, Spring 2020
Louisiana’s Native Culture (invited speaker), Illumination Series, SOWELA Technical Community College, February 18, 2020
Moderator, Language, Learning and Technology panel, College of Liberal Arts Student Spotlight Forum, April 4, 2019
Co-Moderator, Intertribal Discussion: Belonging and Identity Native American Student Association, September 10, 2018
Local Organizing Committee, CoLang 2014: Institute on Collaborative Language Research
Judge, ACES (Annual Celebration of Excellence by Students) Conference, University of Texas at Arlington, 2013; 2016
Graduate Student Senate, University of Texas at Arlington, 2013-2015
Delegate, World Social Forum, 2003, Porto Alegre Brazil
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