Kathleen is a folklorist with over thirty year's experience in public sector folklore including the development of audio programs, festivals, and exhibitions on traditional culture and folk art.

Her collaboration with Wabanaki basket makers resulted in a multi-tribal effort to preserve the ash basketry tradition and the creation of the Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance.  She is the author of North by Northeast: Wabanaki, Haudenosaunee and Tuscarora Traditional Arts (Tilbury House Press, 2008) and the co-author, with Jennifer Neptune, of WíwӘnikan…the beauty we carry (Colby College Museum of Art, 2019).