Kayci Cook Collins became Superintendent of Mesa Verde National Park and Yucca House National Monument in September 2021.

Kayci Cook-Collins
Mesa Verde National Park

Sandra Zarzycka
2019 Field Intern
Sandra is interested in understanding human-environmental interactions within the American Southwest using geographical and geoarchaeological perspectives.

Sarah Amelia Foster
2019 Lab Intern
Sarah studies the preceramic and early agricultural periods of the northern Southwest region of the U.S.

Margaret C. (Peggy) Nelson
Research Institute Advisor
President’s Professor in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change and Vice Dean of Barrett Honors College at Arizona State University.

Paulette Steeves
Algoma University
Paulette Steeves. Ph.D. (Cree- Metis) is an Indigenous archaeologist.

Bruce Bradley
University of Exeter
Bruce Bradley is Emeritus Professor at the University of Exeter, Research Associate at the Smithsonian, the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies (Bengaluru), and certified to teach at several South American universities.

Marit Munson
Trent University

Deedee M. Decker
Board of Trustees
Deedee is a cattle rancher and former television producer at WGBH in Boston and WNET in New York. She lives in Denver and Ridgway, Colorado, and has served on the Board since 2006.

Karen Adams
Research Associate; Independent Researcher
Karen is a paleoethnobotanist focused on plants important in subsistence and for other daily needs.

Deloria Lomawaima
2019 Native Scholar in Residence
Deloria (Hopi) is a Crow Canyon High School Field School student alum, National Endowment for the Humanities scholar, and has taught countless students as a former Crow Canyon employee.

Jonathan Dubois
California State University San Bernardino
Jonathan J. Dubois (Ph.D. UC Riverside 2017), adjunct professor at California State University San Bernardino, is a landscape archaeologist and iconographer whose work lies at the intersection between symbolism, landscape, and social organization in past societies of Northwestern South America and Belize.

Radek Palonka
Research Institute; 2005 Intern
Radoslaw (Radek) examines settlement structure and the socio-cultural changes around Sand Canyon Pueblo during the 13th Century.