Senator, South Dakota State Senate, District 15, 2017-2025

Minority Leader, South Dakota State Senate, 2023-2025

Minority Whip, South Dakota State Senate, 2019-2023

Candidate, South Dakota State Senate, District 15, 2016, 2018, 2020, 2022

Member Board of Directors, Higher Education Consortium for Urban Affairs (HECUA), 2013-2016

Candidate, South Dakota State House of Representatives, District 12, 2004

Former Member, Commerce and Energy Committee, South Dakota State Senate

Former Member, Government Operations and Audit Committee, South Dakota State Senate

Former Member, Industrial Hemp Study, South Dakota State Senate

Professor/Associate Professor/Assistant Professor, Economics, Augustana University, 1995-present

Co-Author, An Introduction to Financial Markets and Institutions

Co-Author, Economics: An Introduction to Traditional and Progressive Views

Senior Visiting Scholar, Curtin University, 2003

Visiting Scholar, University of Notre Dame, 2002

Member, Saint Mark's Lutheran Church, 1995-present

President/Member, Association for Institutional Thought, present

Member/Mission Committee Member, Saint Luke's Lutheran Church, present

Member, Association for Evolutionary Economics

Member, Modern Monetary Theory

Member, Western Social Science Association

Board of Directors Member, Higher Education Consortium for Urban Affairs (HECUA), 2013-2016

Chair, Minnehaha County Democratic Party, 2002

Awards:

Augustana Student Association Faculty Recognition Award, 2006
Vernon and Mildred Niebuhr Faculty Excellence Award, 2006

Publications:

Book Review of The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality by Angus Deaton, The Social Science Journal 51:3, 491--492,2014
Economic Classes: The Poor, the Shrinking Middle Class, and the Wealthy, Chapter 22 In the Guide to U.S. Economic Policy, edited by Robert E. Wright and Thomas W. Zeiler, 319-335, SAGE/CQ Press,2014
Do Institutionalists and Post-Keynesians Share a Common Approach to Modern Monetary Theory, European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies:Intervention, Vol. 10 No. 1, pp. 44--60,2013
What do Undergraduates Study in Heterodox Economic Programs? An Examination of the Curricula Structure at 36 Self-Identified Programs, On the Horizon,2012