Experience

Cross-Cultural Consulting Services, PLLC

• United States
• International Trade and Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• President

  • 1999 - Present

  Seattle, Washington, United States

• CEO; Senior Applied Anthropologist

  • Jan 2003 - Present

  Seattle, WA USA Client Social Safeguards Strategic Planning; Quality control assurance; engaging with companies to achieve IFC-standard "social licence to operate"

• President

  • 1999 - Present

  Tacoma,WA, USA * Supporting companies develop strategies for social planning, particularly for projects involving Indigenous Peoples * Devising Social Impact Assessments, resettlement plans, and Indigenous Peoples Development Plans



The World Bank

• United States
• International Trade and Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Social Specialist Consultant

  • Mar 1997 - Present

  Washington, DC Service on Indigenous Peoples policy development team and various Bank projects throughout Asia and the Russian Federation; co-author/editor of Indigenous Peoples Guidebook for Staff.



Sakhalin Energy

• Oil and Gas
• 700 & Above Employee

• External Monitor, Sakhalin Indigenous Minorities Development Plan

  • 2005 - Present

  Sakhalin, Russian Federation Meet regularly with community members, company staff, and government representatives to review the operation and level of community satisfaction with the Indigenous Peoples development plan. Recommended changes to improve plan delivery and community satisfaction.



ERM: Environmental Resources Management

• Senior Consultant

  • Jun 2005 - Dec 2012

  Jakarta, Indonesia



Asian Development Bank (ADB)

• Philippines
• International Trade and Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Social Specialist

  • May 2005 - Dec 2012

  Manila, Philippines Indigenous Peoples Guidebook editor/author; Indigenous Peoples Policy team member; senior social advisor for project teams working on involuntary resettlement, Indigenous Peoples, and social development; Country Safeguards System framework co-developer. China, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Bangladesh


Pacific Lutheran University
• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee
• Director, Chinese Studies Program

  • 1995 - 2002