Achieved a Ph.D. in environmental historian and serves as an expert witness in disputes involving 19th- and 20th-century land use and water history, bringing more than 20 years of professional experience and over 15 years of expert witness engagement, including litigation consultation, deposition testimony, and courtroom testimony in state and federal venues. She has served as principal of a historical research consulting firm, professor of practice, and affiliated faculty member in a university history department. She earned her Ph.D. in American History from a major public research university, and remains active in the historical profession through professional affiliations and service on boards and commissions, including the Idaho State Historical Records Advisory Board.

A substantial portion of her work focuses on water rights and irrigation history, including the historical development and operation of irrigation facilities, flood control systems, river navigability, groundwater and surface water use, and the historic condition of watercourses and related lands. Her experience also encompasses environmental liability and contamination matters, such as CERCLA and Superfund sites, RCRA issues, mine waste disposal, storm water disposal, and Clean Water Act litigation, as well as access and title history issues involving federal lands, R.S. 2477 rights-of-way, irrigation ditch rights under the 1866 Mining Law, historic surveys and boundaries, and mining-related land and title history. Across her consulting practice, she has conducted extensive archival research in federal, state, corporate, and special collections and has provided expert reports, deposition and trial testimony, and historical analysis to private entities, public agencies, Native American clients, utilities, irrigation districts, municipalities, and state attorneys general in matters spanning water rights adjudications, interstate disputes, navigability determinations, CERCLA liability, and land and resource management history.