icon-documentPublications and Other Intellectual Contributions
"I've devoted my entire life to my daughter--and she knows it." Exploration of identity development among now-adult Navajo Native American adolescent mothers, Identity: An International Journal of Theory and Reseach, August 2013
“I Want to Leave—Go Far Away…I Don’t Want to Get Stuck on the Reservation”: Examining Developmental Trajectories and Indicators of Well-Being among the Adolescent-Aged Children of Navajo Native American Teenage Mothers,, Journal of Research on Adolescence, January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2015
“You just give them what they want and pray they don’t kill you”: Street-level sex workers’ reports of victimization, personal resources and coping strategies, Violence Against Women
Sex trafficked women in the Midwestern United States and Mumbai, India: Worlds apart and strikingly similar, Reducing Health Disparities in the Midwest: Research Updates from the Field, December 2015
icon-keynotePresentations
Development of a Global Association of Scholars. , International Police Training Institute (IPTI), Los Angeles, CA
“Human Trafficking in the Land of Prayer and Enlightenment.” , Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences , Orlando, FL
“All the men here have the Peter Pan Syndrome—they don’t want to grow up”: Navajo adolescent mothers’ intimate relationships—15 years later, Institute on Violence, Abuse and Trauma, San Diego, CA
“But I haven’t given up—I still have courage”: Research with female survivors trafficked into Mumbai’s Commercial Sex Industry, Institute on Violence, Abuse and Trauma, San Diego, CA
“Human Trafficking in the Land of Prayer and Enlightenment.” , Center for Scholastic Inquiry, Charleston, SC
“Journal of Human Trafficking: A Critical Resource for the Global Association of Scholars.” , International Police Training Institute (IPTI), Los Angeles, CA
icon-bookmark-starAwards & Honors
Best Presentation Award in Behavioral Sciences., Center For Scholastic Inquiry International Academic Research Conference, 2015
The Influential Scholar, National Research Consortium on Commercial Sexual Exploitation, 2014
Certificate of Recognition for Contribution to Students, UNL Teaching Council and the UNL Parents Association, 2012