From 1981 on, she was actively involved in oral history and community development projects with Micmac Indians in Maine.
[4] McBride has served as a visiting professor in cultural anthropology at Principia College, Elsah, Illinois (1981–1992) and the Salt Center for Documentary Field Studies, Portland, Maine (1995).
[5] She serves on a number of boards, including the Women’s World Summit Foundation, based in Geneva, Switzerland (2003- ).
An adjunct lecturer of cultural anthropology at Kansas State University (1996- ), she now lives in Bath, a town on the coast of Maine, with her husband, Dutch anthropologist Harald E.L. Prins.
She is the daughter of retired CBS Executive and NBC anchor Robert J. McBride and Cynthia Martin.