Can you summarize your research in a simple way?
Outdoor educator, nonprofit leader, and rogue ethnographer.
How long have you conducted fieldwork?
18 years?
My first research project that took me far from home was in 2006. A friend and I spent the summer traveling through Tibet by bus, horseback, motorcycle, and a highly restricted train. We were visiting schools and interviewing parents and teachers in an effort to understand how parents navigate decisions around language, education, and cultural change.
Where have you conducted fieldwork? Which was your favorite?
In the years since then I’ve led multiple research projects in India and Pakistan, and have spent a lot of time in ‘the field’ in other contexts in Chile, British Columbia, and throughout the western United States.
Hard to say favorites!
What is your favorite part about conducting fieldwork?
Meeting new people and finding the edges of my comfort zone.