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Christopher holds both a Ph.D. in anthropology and an M.B.A. in business administration. He is a DMI Certified Digital Marketing Professional, a AMA Professional Certified Marketer-Digital Marketing, and a FEWA Master Certified Forensic Litigation Consultant. He has held senior and executive positions, including Chief Executive Officer, Chief Marketing Officer, Vice President, Regional Manager, and Office Director, for leading heritage and environmental firms. Like many, though, his start in the heritage industry was as a laboratory and field technician.

Christopher believes that professional service is an important part of practice. He has served his profession as the President of the American Cultural Resources Association, President of the Register of Professional Archaeologists, President and Treasurer of the Society for American Archaeology, Editor of Advances in Archaeological Practice: A Journal of the Society for American Archaeology, and Treasurer of Archaeology Southwest. Since he returned to school to complete his M.B.A., his passion has been bringing better business practices to the heritage industry.

Charlotte Dawson is a Ph.D. candidate in anthropology at the University of Arizona, where she received her M.A. in anthropology in 2022. She is trained in sociocultural and archaeological field methods and specializes in ethnography, ethnohistory, and community-based archaeology. Her research is focused on indigenous cultural heritage conservation and environmental restoration in the U.S. Southwest. She is currently conducting her dissertation research on wildlife management programs on Tribal Nations in New Mexico.

Dr. John R. Welch provides field and archival research and expert testifying witness services in archaeology, Native American land use, and cultural resource/heritage management. Dr. Welch’s trial, evidence preparation, and consultation experience centers on compliance with federal cultural resource protection statutes, Native American boarding schools, and the identification, assessment, and valuation of damage resulting from violations of the Archaeological Resources Protection Act and related laws. Dr. Welch served for more than a decade as the Tribal Historic Preservation Officer for the White Mountain Apache and is a Professor of Archaeology at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia. Dr. Welch’s current research, outreach, and expert work is based in Tucson, Arizona.

Katie Portman is a Registered Professional Archaeologist and a recent graduate of the University of Arizona with a master's degree in anthropology. She is a trained dendrochronologist with a specialization in geospatial analysis, and she has field experience in Canada, Ireland, Greece, and across the southwestern U.S. Her research interests include human-environment interaction, indigenous histories, and heritage conservation. Katie lives in Chicago with her husband and a pit bull mix named Sandy.