Zach Allen

Zach Allen is a Cultural Resource Specialist at HDR. He has over 9 years of professional experience in cultural resource management in the greater Pacific Northwest. Prior to coming to HDR, Zach was the Project Archaeologist at Olympic National Park where he conducted his thesis on lithic analysis and geochemical provenance analysis on the Elwha River on the Olympic Peninsula. Zach earned his BA in Anthropology from the University of Montana and his MS in Cultural and Environmental Resource Management from Central Washington University. In his spare time, Zach enjoys trail running, surfing, and exploring the little corners of this great state with his dog, Luna.

 

Ayla Aymond

Based in Spokane, Ayla Aymond is a regional archaeologist for Washington State Parks. Ayla has 22 years of experience in archaeology and cultural resource management and has conducted fieldwork in the Pacific Northwest, Alaska, and throughout the Upper Midwest. Her research interests include arctic archaeology, zooarchaeology, and textile conservation. Originally from Minnesota, Ayla relocated to Washington to attend graduate school at Central Washington University where she earned a Master’s degree in Resource Management in 2015. In her spare time, Ayla enjoys sewing, craft beer, and exploring the world by bicycle.

 

Jessie Barrington

Jessie Barrington is an attorney and the Indigenous Practice Lead at Cultural Heritage Partners, PLLC. An enrolled citizen of the Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw Indians, Jessie brings over a decade of high-impact legal experience across Tribal, federal, and private practice arenas. Jessie serves as General Counsel to federally recognized Tribal Nations and First Nations clients, advising on a broad spectrum of issues including governance, business development, land-into-trust acquisitions, and environmental and cultural resource protection. She drafts and enforces Tribal codes, structures Section 17 corporations and Tribal LLCs, and negotiates agreements that strengthen jurisdiction and reflect cultural priorities. Her current focus is on helping Tribes build enforcement and recovery strategies for natural resource violations—such as timber trespass, fire trespass, and cultural resource damage—and supporting Tribal efforts to expand sovereignty in NEPA, NAGPRA, and Section 106 processes. Jessie earned her J.D. from Lewis & Clark Law School and is admitted to practice in Oregon and Virginia, as well as before the U.S. Supreme Court and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. She is co-author of American Indian Identity: Citizenship, Membership, and Blood and has written on Tribal self-governance, jurisdiction, and sovereignty-driven legal strategy.

 

Diana Bob

Diana Bob is an attorney with Native Law PLLC in Bellingham, Washington and is an enrolled member of the Lummi Nation. Diana’s legal practice is focused on generally applicable environmental laws, Federal Indian law, cultural resources laws, Indian water rights, treaty reserved rights, and real property matters. Prior to establishing Native Law PLLC, she was an attorney with Tribal governments, a private law firm, and Washington’s civil legal aid firm. Diana currently serves as an appointee on the Washington State Attorney General’s Truth and Reconciliation Tribal Advisory Committee. In addition, she has held several leadership positions for the Washington State Bar Association’s Indian Law Section and is a frequent CLE presenter on Indian and Environmental law topics. Diana received a B.A. from Pitzer College and a J.D. from Lewis & Clark Law School with a certificate in environmental law.

 

Allyson Brooks

[from 2025] Allyson Brooks holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology, a Master of Science in Historical Archaeology, and a Master’s of Public Administration. She has been working in the field of archaeology and historic preservation since 1987 in various positions across the U.S. She was a historical archaeologist for the U.S. Forest Service, staff archaeologist for the State of South Dakota, and an archaeologist and historian for the Minnesota Department of Transportation. She has been in Washington State since 1999 as the State Historic Preservation Officer. When the Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation became an independent agency in 2005, she was appointed the Executive Director of the Department of Archaeology and Historic Preservation. Allyson serves as the Governor’s recognized advisor on the preservation of architectural, archaeological, and cultural resources. As the primary leader and advisor for historic preservation, Allyson Brooks is frequently asked to provide policy expertise to the Governor, Governor’s staff, state legislators, and the Congressional delegation. She makes certain to maintain bipartisan relationships with the Legislature in order to focus on issues and solutions. She is now serving as a Trustee for Evergreen State College.

 

Josephine Buck

For the purpose of my traditional heritage, my Indian Name is “Mimanú” (Mee-muh-nu). The Sahaptin translation is the Barn Owl. My English name is Josephine Buck. My maternal blood comes from the George-Ortiz Family of the Nooksack Indian Tribe, and my paternal blood comes from the Buck-Umtuch Family of the Wanapam Tribe. I’m an enrolled member of The Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation. I’m the current Ecologist with the Yakama Nation Environmental Restoration Waste Management Program. I graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Geography from Central Washington University. My overall inspiration to learn from the land has come from a long-time belief that I will pass my knowledge to my children. I am a mother of two daughters and feel this role is my most important reasoning to care for the land.

 

Jasmine Buries

Jasmine Buries serves as an Assistant Wildlife Biologist with the Tulalip Beaver Project, where she helps facilitate beaver relocation, habitat monitoring, and watershed restoration efforts. Her work centers on reducing human–beaver conflict while supporting ecological resilience and Tribal resource priorities. She is dedicated to advancing collaborative, culturally informed approaches to natural resource management.

 

Ellen Chapman

Ellen Chapman, PhD is a Cultural Resources Reviewer at Cultural Heritage Partners, and focuses on supporting Tribes, descendant communities, and other stakeholders through complex regulatory processes. Ellen provides analysis and advice to clients to advance their protection of archaeological heritage important to them and to obtain meaningful mitigation if sites are lost or damaged. Her work has addressed unpermitted construction damage, fraudulent archaeological reporting, violations of burial laws, and deficient agency consultation practices. As a member of the Council of Virginia Archaeologists DHR Guidelines Committee and Legislative Affairs Committee, she has worked to improve the robustness of archaeological regulations to provide a level playing field in the cultural resources management industry. She was recently a speaker on tribal cultural resources codes and archaeological damage valuation on CHP’s free recorded webinar, Sacred Sites, Sovereign Tools: Developing Cultural Protections for Your Tribe. While her free time has become more limited since her son arrived in February 2025, she loves hiking, swimming, linocut printmaking, and traveling.

 

Todd Clark

Todd is an enrolled member of the Wailaki Tribe, the Tribal Liaison for the Washington State Historical Society, and an independent Native arts curator with extensive museum experience. Based in Washington, he founded IMNDN and has curated Native art exhibitions nationally. He also served as co-curator of the WSHS museum’s new permanent gallery “This Is Native Land.”

 

Emma Dubois

Emma Dubois is currently pursuing an MS in anthropology from Portland State University (PSU) with a focus on landscape archaeology, collaborative methodologies, and geographic information systems (GIS) applications in archaeology. Emma received her BA in Anthropology with an archaeology concentration and a GIS Certificate from Western Washington University (WWU) in 2019. Emma’s earliest heritage management experiences include working as a Lab Technician for the Lummi Nation and for the WWU Anthropology Department Archaeology Repository. Since 2019 Emma has worked for cultural resource management (CRM) companies in western Washington and for the U.S. Forest Service in New Mexico and Washington where she conducted data recovery excavations, construction monitoring, and cultural resource surveys—pedestrian and subsurface—among other field- and office-based responsibilities. Outside of school, Emma loves to go biking, relax outside, and do art projects in various mediums. Lately she’s had the opportunity to participate in land tending and habitat restoration efforts around Portland, OR. She also chairs the Association for Washington Archaeology’s (AWA) Mentorship Committee. Additionally, Emma enjoys participating in outreach opportunities like school visits and PSU’s Archaeology Roadshow.

 

Liz Ellis

Liz Ellis coordinates environmental and cultural resources review on federally funded and Clean Water State Revolving fund agreements. Prior experience includes NEPA coordination, ESA consultation, aquatic land planning, and working with wildlife, including bull trout and both the California and Northern Spotted Owl.

 

Jennifer Ferris

Jennifer Ferris is the Washington Cultural Resources Business Class Lead at HDR. She has 25 years of professional and technical experience in archaeology and cultural resources management in the Pacific Northwest, Great Basin, California, Baja California, and Western Australia. Jen specializes in the study of lithic technological organization, stone tool macro-analyses, and geochemical stone provenance assays. She earned her BA in Anthropology at the University of Washington and her MA in Anthropology at Washington State University. She enjoys spending time with her family doing many activities including cooking, hiking, camping, kayaking, traveling, and watching her kids play sports. She also likes to promote cultural resources protection and education. She has served on the Society for American Archaeology’s Nominations Committee, RPA Grievance Committee, and has been on the Summit’s Agenda Planning Committee since 2016.

 

Jackie Ferry

Jackie Ferry works for Samish Indian Nation, managing the Natural Resources and Tribal Historic Preservation departments. Jackie has been with Samish since 2010 and worked for small cultural resource management firms in the Pacific Northwest and Great Plains prior to that. She has a B.A. in Anthropology from Western Washington University, an M.A. in Landscape Archaeology from University of Sheffield, and completed field school with Central Washington University.

 

Nichola Gregory

Nichola Gregory is a second-year master’s student in the Environmental Science Program at the College of the Environment, Western Washington University. She has a BS in Earth Sciences, with a focus in Ocean Sciences and a minor in Marine Biology and Ecology from Oregon State University. Nichola also has a certificate in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and is a commercial drone pilot through the FAA’s Part 107. Before attending WWU, Nichola was a Science Communications Specialist for Clark Conservation District where she generated and managed geospatial apps and data, created deployable outreach materials, and facilitated meetings and events with individual landowners and broader communities.

 

Sydney Hanson

Sydney Hanson is a Cultural Resources Specialist with the Washington State Department of Ecology’s Toxics Cleanup Program (TCP). Ecology is committed to protecting, preserving, and enhancing Washington’s environment for current and future generations. Sydney helps to support this mission by ensuring that cleanup projects comply with state and federal cultural resources laws. Sydney has done archaeology in the United States (PNW and Wisconsin) and around the world (Japan and Thailand), and has more than a decade of cultural resources experience. When she’s not at work, she’s doing crafts, pestering her cats, or working in her garden.

 

Sierra Harding

Sierra Harding is an archaeologist currently working in cultural resources management based out of Dudek’s Seattle office. In 2025, she was elected to serve a two-year term as Vice President for the Association for Washington Archaeology. Sierra has made it her mission to modernize the administrative operations of the organization so that the board and contributors can focus more on serving the membership instead of updating spreadsheets!

 

Taylor Harriman

Taylor has a decade of field experience with numerous Phase I, Phase II, and Phase III archaeological projects with several CRM firms in both historic and precontact contexts throughout the Pacific Northwest. He is experienced with small- and medium-scale projects, such as urban development, transportation, construction site monitoring, forestry, and telecommunication projects. Taylor recently began working with the Suquamish Tribe’s Archaeology and Historic Preservation Program and has been using his experience in CRM to help protect cultural resources that are important to the Tribe. He looks forward to learning more about the world of consultation and developing relationships within the community.

 

Marco Hatch

Marco Hatch is a Professor of Environmental Science at the College of the Environment, Western Washington University. Marco is marine ecologist with a Ph.D. in Biological Oceanography from Scripps Institution of Oceanography and a member of the Samish Indian Nation. Prior to WWU he directed the Salish Sea Research Center at Northwest Indian College. His research weaves traditional ecological knowledge and marine science through the exploration of food systems. He is currently co-PI for the NSF funded Native Food, Energy, Water Systems INCLUDES Alliance, co-PI for Active Societal Participation in Research and Education (ASPIRE), PNW Hub lead for the Center for Braiding Indigenous Knowledges and Science and a Pew Marine Conservation Fellow. Hatch is on the Board of Trustees for the Washington Chapter of the Nature Conservancy, Coast Salish Youth Coalition, and the Clam Garden Network.

 

Sean Hess

Sean Hess has worked as a professional archaeologist in the Pacific Northwest since 1989. He holds both a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts from the University of Oregon and earned his Ph.D. from Washington State University. After approximately a decade in the private sector, he joined the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation in 2000 as Tribal Archaeologist, where he primarily supported forestry and fire management programs.

In 2008, Sean transitioned to federal service with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, beginning at Grand Coulee Dam and later serving as the Pacific Northwest Regional Archaeologist based in Boise starting in 2011. In July 2025, he returned to tribal service, joining the Cowlitz Indian Tribe as its first Cultural Resources Policy Analyst. In this role, he has focused on strengthening policy, improving intergovernmental consultation practices, and positioning the Cultural Resources Department to meet future regulatory and programmatic demands.

Outside of work, Sean is a founding member of Wednesday Old Guy Skate Night, skateboarding in pools and bowls throughout the greater Boise area. His most recent historic preservation project involves rehabilitating a vintage English-made Raleigh bicycle from the 1970s.

 

Jennifer Horwitz

Jennifer is an environmental planner and NEPA practitioner with over 25 years of experience on public infrastructure projects in the Pacific Northwest. She finds the most interesting projects to be the ones at the intersection of cultural resources, biological and ecological resources, and community stakeholders. Jennifer has a Master of Science degree in Economics from Illinois State University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is a certified mediator in Washington State specializing in interpersonal and work-place conflict resolution, and she holds a certificate in Environmental Conflict Resolution from the John S. McCain III National Center for Environmental Conflict Resolution. Jennifer is currently the Training and Facilitation Program Manager for the Whatcom Dispute Resolution Center. This organization provides mediation, facilitation, training and other services to support people who are navigating conflict.

 

Zoe Irish

Zoe Irish is a Tribal Liaison for the Washington State Department of Transportation, Northwest Region. Zoe has a background in geology, permitting, and planning. Her family is full of environmentalists who taught her the importance of honoring and protecting the planet. Her career path has led her towards liaison work with tribal governments, which is the most fulfilling work of her career. Zoe prioritizes supporting tribal communities, ensuring that tribal sovereignty is honored and that open communication and consultation between WSDOT and tribes is maintained. In her spare time, Zoe enjoys reading, gardening, beavering (ask her about it), and volunteering.

 

Paula Johnson

Paula Johnson is a Senior Archaeologist at Willamette Cultural Resources Associates. She has a strong background in transportation, parks/trails, and wastewater projects and specializes in curation. Paula is grateful for the Summit community and to gather with colleagues for another year of collaboration and learning (and watching for dolphins). She is proud to claim partial responsibility for the inclusion of iced tea among the afternoon break refreshments (thanks for listening Mary).  (You are very welcome, Paula! It has kept me true to my Southern roots, too.)

 

Stephanie Jolivette

Stephanie Jolivette is the Cultural Resources Unit Manager at the Washington State Recreation and Conservation Office (RCO) where she oversees the review of 29 grant programs with a team of professional archaeologist and architectural historians. RCO is committed to providing statewide leadership and funding to protect and improve the best of Washington’s natural and outdoor recreation resources, and the RCO Cultural Resources Unit supports that mission by reviewing projects for potential impacts to cultural resources. For more than 20 years Stephanie has worked for museums, cultural resource firms, and state government, giving her a more holistic understanding of the cultural resources process in Washington State. She is committed to finding better ways to integrate Tribal interests into the grant review process to improve protections for cultural resources while also promoting environmental recovery.

 

Katherine Kelly

Kat Kelly is WDFW’s Cultural Resource Division Manager. Her professional experience includes landscape archaeology, perishable materials (shell, bone, and fiber), ecosystem management, river restoration, and policy development. She earned a Master of Environmental Studies degree from The Evergreen State College, where her research focused on Indigenous landscape management and developing replicable methods for recording rock features. Her early work centered on Indigenous resource management and the curation of perishable materials.

In her current role, Kat leads cultural resource policy implementation and ensures agency compliance with state and federal preservation laws. She oversees a statewide program across six regions, managing staff, budgets, and interdisciplinary coordination to protect cultural resources on agency-managed lands. Kat works closely with Tribal government staff, state and federal agencies, and stakeholders to advance stewardship, resolve management challenges, and integrate cultural resource considerations into restoration, land management, and development projects.

 

Warren King George

Warren King George is an enrolled member of the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe through his late father’s bloodline (Gilbert) and a descendent of the Upper Skagit Tribe through his late mother, (Tina). He is employed with the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe - Preservation Program as the Tribal Historian. Warren has worked for the Tribe for the past 33 years and his work includes collecting and recording oral history from Tribal and Community Members. Oral history projects can range from hunting, fishing and clamming stories on the Puget Sound to berry picking trips in the Cascade Mountains. He works with a variety of Government agencies to ensure Treaty Right access and to create management plans to maintain and enhance our valuable cultural resources. Additionally, he works with museums, colleges and public schools to provide lectures on the rich history, traditions and culture of what is known today as the Muckleshoot People.  Warren has been a member of the Burke Native American Advisory Board, History Link Board member and Museum of History and Industry Collections advisor.

 

Bob Kopperl

Bob has served in a managerial and principal investigator role in the CRM field since 2003, when he completed his Ph.D. in anthropology at the University of Washington. He has also worked as a field archaeologist since 1992, within and between undergraduate and graduate school academic years. Bob has managed federal, state, and local compliance projects throughout Washington, Alaska, Idaho, and Oregon. His clients include local, state, and federal government agencies, Tribal governments, public utilities agencies, and non-profit and private sector clients. He has directed cultural resources investigations at a variety of scales – from small surveys to large archaeological data recovery projects and long-term construction monitoring. Bob's abiding research interests include zooarchaeology and human adaptations in coastal settings. He currently serves as an affiliate archaeology researcher at the Burke Museum and periodically teaches a CRM class at UW. He served 14 years on the Board of Directors of the Association for Washington Archaeology, including past-president. Bob has attended all but one of the previous Cultural Resource Protection Summits! (Thank you for your steady support, Bob!)

 

Corey Lentz

Corey Lentz is a Cultural Resource Specialist at Parametrix in Seattle, Washington. Corey develops historic property documentation, environmental review and programmatic agreement documents, and preservation planning tools for the purpose of enhancing efficient and effective stewardship and federal, state, and local regulatory compliance for his clients. He is especially interested in developing practices for documenting complex, multi-component historic built environment and cultural landscape resources that have had lasting effects on traditional or ethnographic patterns of settlement, community development, and the environment in the Pacific Northwest.

 

Phil LeTourneau

As the King County Historic Preservation Program’s Senior Archaeologist, Phil LeTourneau assists County agencies with all aspects of archaeological resources management. He reviews County construction projects for potential impacts to archaeological sites; provides archaeology training for County employees; assists County agencies in developing scopes of work and cost estimates for archaeological consultants; reviews archaeological work by consultants for County agencies; represents the County in Section 106 review of non-County projects; and conducts public outreach (artifact ID days, etc.). Prior to joining HPP in 2007, Phil had 20 years of archaeology experience, including 9 years as a consultant in Seattle. He received a PhD in Anthropology from the University of New Mexico in 2000. He is an Archaeology Curatorial Associate at the University of Washington’s Burke Museum.

 

Maurice Major

Mo Major (some people call him Maurice) studied cultural Anthro in the last century and then moved to Hawai’i to complement academic education by living in a culture far from his southern roots. He learned archaeology on the job and how to behave from Kanaka Maoli, working at Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum and then Hawai`i State Parks for 11 years. He came to the Northwest in 2008 and refuses to leave, working with various state land management agencies before starting as the first “Stewardship Archaeologist” for Parks (or any state agency) in 2023. His professional and personal interests tend to blend and include cultural landscapes and gardening, coastal geomorphology and pretty rocks, middle range theory and various food-oriented experiments. He feels weirdly happy about being an old anarchist punk working for the bureaucracy, and being able to steward cultural places alongside tribes is a big reason for that. He supports his research habit with occasional consulting gigs.

 

Miranda Maple

Miranda Maple is a settler archaeologist, aspiring ethnobotanist/ethnoecologist, and current MA student at Oregon State University. Her work focuses on the relationship between CRM practitioners and existing natural cultural resources -- looking to offer a broader understanding of how cultural resources are defined, what resources are not offered cultural protections, and how the inclusion of culturally significant plants can offer a better, collaborative and holistic view of the past and future. Miranda’s academic advisors are David G. Lewis and Molly Carney.

 

Pat McCutcheon

Pat is a Professor of Anthropology at Central Washington University’s Department of

Anthropology and Museum Studies. There, in addition to anthropology and archaeology,

he teaches and advises students in the Cultural and Environmental Resource

Management graduate program and the American Indian Studies Program. He has lived

and worked in the Pacific Northwest most of his life; his field school was on San Juan

Island in 1984, and since then, he has led over 25 field schools in the region focusing

on archaeology on the slopes of Mount Rainier and the east Saddle Mountains in

central Washington. Pat is devoted to working with students and sharing his

experiences doing archaeology. He has organized two Northwest Anthropology

Conferences at CWU and regularly attends NWAC with his students to share their research collaborations. His most recent interests are taking him into the realm of

indigenous archaeology and working with Native American communities to create space

for their voices and facilitate the appropriation of archaeological theory, method, and

technique.

 

Keith Mendez

Keith Mendez is an Archaeologist and the Cultural Resources Program Manager for the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. He has over 20 years of experience in archaeology and cultural resource management. He has conducted fieldwork in the northeast, southern plains, southwest, and northern Mexico before moving to the Pacific Northwest in 2010. In his role at PNNL Keith is responsible for managing preservation compliance and consultation related to facility management and scientific research activities at PNNLs two main campuses in Richland and Sequim. Keith earned his BA from Stony Brook University (SUNY) and his MA from the University of Tulsa.

 

Micca Metz

Micca A. Metz, first of her name, is an archaeologist with a Master of Science in Biological Archaeology with a specialization in mortuary analysis of historic cemeteries on military properties. Starting in 2009, Micca has participated in archaeological investigations in 10 US states, from Virginia to Washington, and provided hands-on sampling aid in British Columbia during the 2017 diesel spill near Bella Bella. Her archaeological career in the Pacific Northwest started in 2012, and she’s been with ESA since 2019. With ESA, she has carved out her own special niche in the world of archaeological monitoring on active construction sites. Micca found that her inability to know a stranger combined with her adoration for a good “dad joke” made her the perfect li’l squirrely unicorn for opening people up and getting them to share valuable information about a project. In her free time, if you couldn’t tell from her intro, she likes to flex her sense of historic-based humor, so please tell her more jokes because her beloved cat is getting tired of the same old knee-slappers.

 

Danica Miller

Danica Sterud Miller (Puyallup Tribe of Indians) is an Associate Professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Washington Tacoma. Her research focuses on textual constructions of Indigenous sovereignty, Federal Indian law, and Puyallup

resistance. Recently, she co-curated the “This is Native Land” exhibit at the Washington State Historical Society.

 

Joe Mouser

Joe Mouser is the Communications Manager of Beavers Northwest, a nonprofit that strives to increase acceptance and understanding of beavers to support healthier and more resilient ecosystems. His passion for wetland ecosystems is what originally drew him to beavers, but his love for these incredible animals has taken on a life of its own. He believes that by helping beavers and humans to coexist, we can improve the functions of the watersheds of our region to better serve the plants, animals, and people that rely on them.

 

Laura Murphy

Laura Murphy has worked as the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe’s archaeologist since 2003. Ms. Murphy assists the Tribe in locating and protecting cultural resources both on and off the Reservation. Prior to working for Muckleshoot, Ms. Murphy worked for cultural resource management firms in Washington State and in several Eastern states for the previous eight years. She enjoys her role with the Tribe’s Preservation Program and continues to learn from her exposure to Tribal experiences and perspectives.

 

Anne Parfitt

Anne Parfitt is an archaeologist at the Recreation and Conservation Office, and a Research Associate at Central Washington University. She received B.S. degrees in Anthropology and Geology from Central Washington University in 2014, and received her PhD from Southern Methodist University in 2024. Her research interests include Pleistocene-aged sites in North America, lithic and geochemical analysis, landscape learning, cultural landscapes, and landscape archaeology. She has several years of experience working on Cultural Resource Management projects in Washington, Oregon, California, and Texas.

 

Jordan Pickrell

Jordan Pickrell is a Senior Archaeologist and Seattle Regional Manager for Historical Research Associates, Inc. (HRA). She acts as project manager, principal investigator, and/or technical editor on projects based out of HRA’s Seattle office and supervises junior staff. She has over 20 years of experience in both cultural resources management and academic archaeology. Jordan earned her PhD in anthropology, with a historical archaeology focus, from the University of Pennsylvania in 2012. She has conducted cultural resources studies involving precontact and historic-period archaeological resources in rural and urban settings in the state of Washington and across the United States. Her experience includes conducting and supervising cultural resources surveys, archaeological testing, data recovery excavations, and artifact identification and laboratory analyses. Jordan is also a certified drone pilot and a member of HRA’s Aerial Imagery and Remote Sensing Services (AIRSS) team. Jordan has been on the Agenda Planning Committee for the Cultural Resource Protection Summit since 2018.

 

 

Bella Pipp

Isabella “Bella” Pipp (settler, German-American) was born and raised in Wisconsin, on the traditional homelands of many including the Ho-Chunk, Dakota, Menominee, Ojibwe, and Potawatomi peoples. Bella received her BA in Anthropology from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and received her MA in Anthropology from Western Washington University. Research interests, among many, include community-based participatory field school programs and environmental assessment regulatory systems. Since 2024, Bella has worked in cultural resource management (CRM), often finding herself balancing between construction monitoring, cultural resource surveys, and report writing. In 2024, she joined ERCI and continues to enjoy working with the ERCI team. Bella loves lazy days with her cats Jethro and Buffy, crocheting, and reading for her book club.

 

Mary Rossi

Mary Rossi is the Program Director for APT-Applied Preservation Technologies, a program of the Bellingham-based nonprofit Eppard Vision established in 2005. She provides cultural resource consulting services and educational programming to a wide range of clients, including Tribal communities, government agencies, engineers, developers, and cultural resource professionals. Her primary mission-based service and labor of love is producing the annual Cultural Resource Protection Summit each May and the annual Satellite Summit each October. Thank you, all, for the support!

Mary has over twenty-five years of cultural resource planning experience, including six years as an employee of the Lummi Nation, first as an Archaeological Field Crew Supervisor on the Semiahmah Recovery Effort and then as the Tribe’s first Tribal Historic Preservation Officer (THPO). Mary received a Master’s Degree in Anthropology from Western Washington University in 1998 (yes, last century). Rey, her family’s first “pocket pup” (11 lbs.), and Harlow, their newly adopted (and much bigger) pup, make sure Mary doesn’t take herself too seriously. They even wondered if this bio might be a little long.

 

Sarah Steinkraus

Sarah Steinkraus is an Archaeologist for the Washington State Recreation and Conservation Office. Ms. Steinkraus is an SOI qualified archaeologist and architectural historian and holds a Master's degree in Forensic Anthropology. She has over 15 years of professional experience in the Pacific Northwest, Great Basin, Midwest, and Mid-Atlantic regions of the US, as well as Central Mexico, while working for consulting firms, tribes, and Central Washington University. 

 

John Swigart

John Swigart is the Geospatial Director for the National Association of Tribal Historic Preservation Officers which he joined in January of 2025. He has served at The Nebraska State Historic Society as a GIS Analyst, Highway Archeologist, and the Section 106 Coordinator for Archeology. John has worked as a GIS professional with the Federal Government, the University of Nebraska and a Type 3 Incident Management Team. John has also ventured into teaching secondary math and science. John received his BA and MA in Anthropology from the University of Nebraska.

 

Allie Taylor

Allie Rae Taylor is the Tribal Historic Preservation Officer (THPO) for the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe (JST) since 2021. Allie has a B.Sc. in Anthropology from Central Washington University and an M.Sc. in Human Osteology and Funerary Archaeology from the University of Sheffield. Prior to JST, Allie previously worked as the Project Archaeologist for the Spokane Tribe of Indians and as a Senior/Project Archaeologist for several private cultural resource management firms throughout the Pacific Northwest.

 

Amanda Taylor

Amanda Taylor is an archaeologist at Willamette Cultural Resources Associates. She has been in cultural resources management archaeology for the past 13 or so years with some years of teaching at Pacific Luthern University after graduate school at the University of Washington from 2003-2012. She studied stone artifact technology and shell middens in the San Juan Islands and California Channel Islands in graduate school. Going back farther in time, she worked in academic field research and/or as a field technician in Oregon, California, Alaska, the Great Basin and New York.  She enjoys learning new things every day and is grateful to the Summit for all the opportunities for listening, learning, and connecting with new teachers. [Mary is grateful to Amanda for her continued asking of excellent questions and for bringing stimulating conversations and experiences to the Summit!]

 

Jennifer Vanderhoof

Jen Vanderhoof is a wildlife ecologist in the Science Section at King County, WA, where she has worked for more than 26 years. Her work has often been related to wildlife and biodiversity. Over the years she has worked on ecological assessments for natural areas, land cover change analyses in GIS, wetland and riparian change analyses,
critical areas code, comprehensive planning, and wildlife connectivity. For the past several years, much of Jen’s work has been focused on beavers, including new planting techniques at restoration sites, consulting on restoration design, and permitting and policy. Jen obsessively observes beaver activity on and off the clock and constantly learns from and about them. She’s also a Master Birder, long-time cold-water diver, wildlife and underwater photographer, and past President of Beavers Northwest.

 

Marion Werkheiser

Marion Werkheiser is an award-winning lawyer and chief executive of the law and policy firm Cultural Heritage Partners, PLLC. Her firm is focused on advancing the principle of cultural heritage as a human right. The firm’s victories have strengthened international and federal preservation law, secured the protection of important sites, objects, and traditions, affirmed the sovereignty of Tribes and First Nations, and helped communities whose culture has been systematically devalued be heard in the courts, legislatures, and before international tribunals. Marion’s well-established practice is rooted at the intersection of development and preservation, and she negotiates in Section 106 consultations on behalf of tribes, local governments, descendant communities, and other consulting parties to achieve creative, win-win outcomes that appropriately balance preservation values and development needs. Marion earned her J.D. from Harvard Law School and is licensed to practice law in California, Virginia, and the District of Columbia.

 

Jennifer Wilson

Jennifer Wilson is the Cultural Resources Program Manager at Washington State Parks, where she oversees the management and protection of cultural resources across the state park system. Her work centers on relationship-building with Tribal nations and cultural resource protection while providing recreational opportunities and informing land management decisions. Before joining Washington State Parks, Jennifer was the Director at Eastern Washington University’s Archaeological and Historical Services. She holds an M.A. in Anthropology from Washington State University and has over 26 years’ experience in archaeology and cultural resources management in the Pacific Northwest and the southeastern United States.