Naomi is a member of Public Pastures-Public Interest, a group that draws together rural and urban Canadians who share an interest in conserving the wellbeing and legacy of the great public grasslands of Saskatchewan. She is also a doctoral student at the University of Manitoba. Her research focuses on alternative models of grazing land tenure and governance in the three Canadian prairie provinces, analyzing how stakeholders negotiate the multiple roles of agricultural land in economic development, food production, conserving ecological resources, recreation, and cultural heritage.