Kristen Mt. Joy
Kristen Mt. Joy is the Cultural Resource Manager for the Texas Army National Guard. In supporting the mission of training soldiers, her program ensures heritage resources such as archaeological sites and historic buildings and features are managed efficiently and military activities are in compliance with Federal and State historic regulations. She also coordinates government-to-government consultation with Native American tribes, which are recognized as sovereign nations, on issues of cultural and sacred properties on Texas Army National Guard training lands. She holds anthropology degrees from University of Utah (BA) and Eastern New Mexico University (MA). She has worked in the American Arctic on coastal and inland archaeological sites, with the late Thor Heyerdahl on excavations at the Pirámedes de Güímar in the Canary Islands, and throughout New Mexico, Texas and Utah. From 2000-2004, she worked as a Field Archaeologist/Outreach coordinator at one of the U.S. Army’s largest training facility
