Carine is a Master’s in Environmental Science Candidate ’26 at the Yale School of Environment. Her research focuses on the integration of Traditional Ecological Knowledge and cultural resources stewardship through working with Pueblo Nations in the U.S. Southwest. She is particularly interested in the relationship between traditional pottery processes and the environment as a place-making practice.
Carine currently serves as Project Coordinator & Research Associate for Heritage Lands Collective, an Indigenous-led 501(3)c dedicated to Indigenous Knowledge integration in co-stewardship initiatives. She has formerly served as NAGPRA Assistant for the Yale Peabody Museum. Prior to Yale, Carine worked as an archaeologist for a native-women-owned firm dedicated to hazardous waste clean-up on Tribal, Federal, and Department of Defense lands.
She has extensive experience on the Navajo Nation in addition to Arizona, Colorado, Guam, New Mexico, and Utah. Carine holds a B.A. in Art History from St. Olaf College and attended the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center Field School as a National Science Foundation Undergraduate Fellow in 2022. In her free time, she enjoys backpacking and plein air painting.