Sockbeson's poem written in honor of missing and murdered Indigenous women, “Hear me in this concrete beating on my drum”, was a winning entry in the Word on the Street Poetry Project in 2018 and is sandblasted on a downtown Edmonton sidewalk as part of a permanent public art installation.

[4] In 1997, Sockbeson was hired as coordinator of Multicultural Programming and Native American Student Affairs at the University of Southern Maine.

[18] In 2016 Sockbeson joined other tribal members in ceremony to pray for the thousands of water protectors at Standing Rock who were challenging the DAPL.

[19] Sockbeson moderated a teach-in in 2018 “Educating for the Justice of Indigenous People; A Teach-In,” aimed at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada and its "Calls to Action & Reconciliation" and calling attention to the not-guilty verdicts in the deaths of Colten Boushie and Tina Fontaine.

Champion as curriculum adviser in 2020 the CBC interviewed Sockbeson, who said, “It's not just a matter of political will — governments and schools have a legal obligation to ensure Canadian children are adequately educated in the history of First Nations people.