• Provide high-level project analysis and coordination to advance wide-ranging strategic initiatives related to interdisciplinary research on the UC Berkeley campus, within and between its museums, organized research units, and field stations• Consult and advise leadership, faculty, directors and staff on policy interpretation/development and grants. Develop project management plans, recommend faculty and stakeholders for consultation, and document outcomes. Author and coordinate policy communications• Represent the University's research enterprise on the campus's International Activities Coordination Group

• Expanded on previous role’s scope and supervisory responsibilities to include management of Museum’s research function, including external requests and internal collections-based research

• Recipient, Chancellor’s Outstanding Staff Award, 2017• Managed Cultural Policy/Repatriation division and served on museum’s Senior Leadership Team• Supervised and coordinated stakeholder outreach, provenance due diligence, annual reports, curation policies, and assessment of repatriation claims for world’s largest anthropological collection held by a public university (3M objects)• Wrote detailed policy papers based on archaeological, historic, and ethnographic literature and traditional narratives for Museum Director and UC Berkeley and UC System administrators• Managed museum’s Native American Advisory Council. Mediate between diverse cultural and academic stakeholders to implement guidelines on collections research, display, and access• Publicly represented the museum on matters of cultural policy, including lectures for graduate and undergraduate law and museum studies courses, and testimony before Federal committee

• Provided specialized advice and program support on Member State heritage laws and UNESCO’s mandate to implement the 1970 Convention on Illicit Traffic of Cultural Property

• Wrote detailed assessments of repatriation claims to provide recommended course of action to governing committee. Hosted tribal delegations for consultation visits. Created written reports for museum administrators regarding sensitive collections

• Mid-career externship, providing specialized advice and program support on UNESCO’s mandate to implement the 1970 Convention on Illicit Traffic of Cultural Property, and on return and restitution efforts• Drafted targeted proposals following 2010 Haiti earthquake regarding at-risk cultural property

• Provided best practice and financial guidance to hospitals through detailed market analysis