[9] He has been a part of several research projects and non-profit initiatives such as Intellectual Property Issues in Cultural Heritage (iPinCH)[8] and Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.
In the years following his initial fieldwork, Asch would be called upon to give testimony in a number of legal proceedings concerning the Dene of the Makenzie River Valley, as well as working with them in numerous negotiations with the Federal Government throughout the 1980s.
[4] After its commission by the Canadian Government in 1974, Asch along with another anthropologist, Scott Rushforth, were called upon as expert witnesses by the Indian Brotherhood of the Northwest Territories to give testimony during the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry.
[17] In 1985 he gave testimony at Dick v. La Reine, a case involving a non-treaty member of the Esk'etemc First Nation, who was charged with killing a deer out of season without a permit.
[19] He served on the board of the FolkwaysAlive initiative, founded in 2004 at the University of Alberta by Professors Regula Qureshi and Michael Frishkopf (with financial support from then VP Research Gary Kachanoski), in partnership with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, during this time.
[20] Asch continues to hold a position as an advisory board member for Smithsonian Folkways Recordings,[10] where he has hosted a number of radio shows and podcasts.
[21] Asch worked with iPinCH, a seven-year research initiative spanning from 2008-2016, based at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia.