I was born and raised in Oklahoma. I am a full-blood citizen of the Creek Nation and a member of the Muskogee Indian Community. For most of my career, I have worked in environmental sciences and conservation on tribal and federal lands with the tribes, the USDA Forest Service and Bureau of Indian Affairs, Washington, DC. I hold a Senior Executive Fellowship at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Additionally, I continue to work with more than 200 tribes and tribal colleges across the nation. My work with Kerulos, in particular the Sacred Bones project (https://kerulos.org/sacredbones/), seeks to revitalize Indigenous humans and Animals and the Earth and bring back the peace and health the Earth once enjoyed.