Kristin has served as program assistant for Loka and worked on the Sacred Wisdom Sacred Earth project since 2021. She is a member of the Lac Vieux Desert Band (LVD) in what is currently known as Watersmeet, MI in addition to a graduate student in Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  As an apprenticing Anishinaabe weaver in traditional fiber arts, she works with culturally specific materials including cedar, basswood, bulrush and birch bark in addition to her handmade paper to weave in the ways of her ancestors, and to employ new techniques, poetically embedding new ideas, observations and concerns.  She has three children and enjoys working in their gardens, foraging, and making medicines.