A former subject leader for Anthropology at the University of Glamorgan, she has also been a visiting Fellow and Acting Postgraduate Course Tutor at the University of Bristol. Trained at UCLA,The University of Chicago and Bristol University, her film work in recent years has included projects in the UK, Nevada, California, Mexico and Costa Rica. She is currently filmmaker/ethnographer for the Kumeyaay Land and Values Project in California and is working on a film linking climate, environment and material culture commissioned for the Nevada Arts Councils Folklife Program.