Remembering Miki

Abstract

I met Miki Crespi when I interviewed for the contract ethnographer position in the National Park Service (NPS) Ethnography Program in April of 1996. It was a tremendous opportunity as I finished my graduate work. Over the next four years, with Miki's guidance, I cultivated my skills as a professional anthropologist. Miki saw my potential and helped me find it. To me she was a mentor, friend, colleague, critic, and greatest supporter, often a second Mom. Miki had two great loves, the NPS Ethnography Program and anthropology. The Ethnography Program was her child; she gave birth to it nurtured it, had hoped to see it into its adulthood.