Profile

Role: Adjunct Instructor

Education: BSW Walla Walla College, MSW Walla Walla College

Experience:  international child welfare, First Nations community development,  community mental health with children & families, outpatient chemical dependency treatment & prevention, community mentoring program development, cultural consultation, organizational diversity development

Interests: racial vs. ethnic identity designation in data collection, clinical implications of DSM diagnosis without proper cultural formulation

Life Interests: pre-colonial educational methods in primary and secondary education, holistic health (psycho, social, emotional, physical, spiritual), environmentally interdependent living, pre-colonial parenting, attachment, building interdependent community, intercultural Identity development in children, raising children for a culturally liberated society, social justice parenting. 

Hobbies: crocheting, making my children's clothes, collecting and writing children's literature, walking, pottery, homeschooling my children