I would describe myself as a wanderer, explorer, and lifelong learner of all things extraordinary. I have spent the bulk of my professional career working with indigenous people as a lawyer, school counselor, and college instructor. My “clans” are Passamaquoddy and Penobscot on my father’s side. Irish…..and more Irish on my mother’s 🙂 I hold a variety of advanced degrees, which include Women’s Studies, Literature, and Psychology, as well as a J.D. I’ve primarily taught Psychology and Criminal Justice. My favorite discipline is usually whatever I happen to be teaching at the time. I believe in cooperative learning, and I intend to create a classroom environment where we are all each other’s teachers as well as students. I often feel as if I am learning as much from my students as they are from me.
So, I spend most of my free time hiking with my pack of rescue dogs and writing, both fiction and non-fiction. Previous publications include one screenplay produced as a TV mini-series, two collections of Haiku, Walking a Sunset 1989, and Reaching 2024. I’m currently finishing up my latest project entitled Saints, Shamans, and Boddhisatvas: Interviews with Ordinary People. I have been shopping a second screenplay entitled Navajo High…….for about 20 years now……in case anybody knows anybody in the film industry who might be interested…..? But my favorite project of all time was a children’s picture book. Lozen: Apache Woman Warrior, Healer, Horse Thief. Illustrations for the book were created by Alex Mitchell, a former colleague at Dine’ College. Last but not least, I also researched and published, while attending Law school, a handful of legal treatises addressing issues related to Environmental Infringements of Indian Lands, Indigenous Rights… This Land is OUR Land, and Domestic Violence, The Sound of One Hand Clapping: The Abused Wife Syndrome as a Defense to the Charge of Homicide.
Thank you for inviting me into your learning experience.
I look forward to meeting each and every one of you either on campus or in cyberspace.
Please take care, be kind, and carry on!Ky 🙂
Where water once flowed
Wild horses now shelter
Will you come find us?
The Higher Education Institution of the Apache People
