2000-Present Independent Researcher

1) applied, embedded research on variance model in food harvesting, processing and marketing as part of reconnecting food systems and ecosystems and recognizing farmers' need to succeed economically while farming ecologically. General area of interest: aligning small-scale economic enterprises in agroforestry, agriculture and artisanal fisheries with biocultural diversity conservation.

2) the study of coral ecosystems and community-based approaches to conservation and resilience of coastal zones (early field studies in Honduras' Cayos Cochinos MPA and STINAPA Bonaire National Marine Park). Currently outfitting Research Vessel Llyr, our commercially registered 53' steel bluewater ketch for ocean conservation research.

2000–2002, 2006 Adjunct Faculty in Cultural Anthropology, Marlboro College, Marlboro, VT

1999 Adjunct Faculty in Cultural Anthropology, Greenfield Community College, Greenfield, MA

1992-3 Teaching Assistant, Department of Anthropology, UMASS Amherst

1989-1990 Documentary Film Associate Producer and Researcher for A Visual Life: Dorothea Lange, Academy Award Nominee Meg Partridge, Producer. Berkeley, CA. Chronicles the life and times of photographer Lange. Responsibilities included research, grant-writing for NEH grant application.

1987-1989 Documentary Film Associate Producer and Researcher for Turning of the Tide , Karen Payne, Producer. Commissioned by Channel Four Television, London England. Shot on location in USSR, UK and USA. Chronicles nuclear strategists and scientists in the US, USSR and UK who changed position and began to work against nuclear proliferation. Responsibilities included research, grant-writing, production management on location in UK, USSR and USA.

1987 Fund-raising Assistant for distribution of Academy Award winning documentary film, Women for America for the World , Vivienne Verdon-Roe, Producer. Berkeley, CA.

1986 -1988 Editor and Graphic Artist , part time Connexions: An International Women's Quarterly Magazine , volunteer produced. Oakland, CA.

1985 Intern: Research and Production Assistant , Studio D, National Film Board of Canada, Montreal, Quebec.

Department of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

1993 M.A. Marginal Cinema and the Politics of Representation

Department of Anthropology, UMASS

1986 B.A., Human Ecology, College of the Atlantic , Bar Harbor, ME

1984-5 McGill University, Montreal, Quebec. Visiting year.

1996 Woodbury Prize, Dept. of Anthropology, UMASS

1996 University of Massachusetts Travel Grant

1994 Grant in Aid of Research Award, Sigma Xi,The Scientific Research Society

1994 European Program Fellowship, Dept of Anthropology, UMASS

May 2009 – Attended Informing Possibilities for the Future of Food and Agriculture , 2009 Joint meeting of the Agriculture, Food and Human Values Society and the Association for the Study of Food and Society, Penn State University.

February 2009 – Panel Presentation, Agricultural Energy Conservation & Value-Added Benefits, Massachusetts Department of Agriculture's Harvest New England Agricultural Marketing Conference , Sturbridge, MA.

2008 Three grants awarded for a 9.3 kw commercial photovoltaic installation at Berkshire Sweet Gold Maple Farm which meets 80% of the farm's electricity demands, received from 1) Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, 2) United States Department of Agriculture & Massachusetts Farm Energy Program; 3) Massachusetts Agricultural Environmental Enhancement Program.

Fall 2008 Taught five week seminar titled The Politics of Sustainability to high school seniors at The Academy at Charlemont, Charlemont, MA.

March 2008 Public Presentation at Historic Deerfield Museum on m aple harvesting science and history.

2007 Only Light Amber maple syrup awarded Gold Star, noting “exceptional Merit” in national review by Sante, the Magazine for Restaurant Professionals. Medium Amber & Black Amber syrups received special “recommended” commendation.

Fall 2007 Taught 5 week seminar titled Sustainability and Agriculture to high school seniors at The Academy at Charlemont, Charlemont, MA.

March 2006 Public Presentation at Historic Deefield Museum on m aple harvesting science and history.

2005 Host farm on Northeast Maple Tour for the Mass Maple Association.

2004-2005 School outreach project: Measuring Maple Tree Growth with Ted Watt of Hancock Nature Center, Hadley, MA & students of Heath Elementary.

1998- Present Annual field trips by local elementary and high schools to study maple harvesting and sustainable agriculture, and ecology. The farm entertains frequent customer visits as part of agritourism allowing us to work with the public in more detail regarding their understanding of, and investments in, family-scale farming, impacts of climate change, and agroecology.

March 1999 Guest Lecturer, Quebec's Common Public Culture and the Integration of Newcomers. For Quebec Civilization (389), UMASS French and Italian Studies.

1997 Participant in multidisciplinary, international research project, Identity, Culture, and Citizenship: New perspectives on governance in Canada. Funded by a grant under the Program for International Research Linkages of the International Council for Canadian Studies.

November 1996 Motors of Insertion: Women and Integration in France presented at the American Anthropological Association 95 ^th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

October 1996 Immigration and Nationalism in Quebec: An Ethnographic Look at the Borderlands of Identity presented at the American Council of Quebec Studies 10 ^th Biennial Conference, Quebec City.

March 1992 The Pluralist City: Gender and Postmodern Architecture, presented at the New England Anthropological Association Meeting, Bridgewater, MA.