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Gary Nabhan, Ph.D., an alumni of Prescott College. Nabhan is the Director of the Center for Sustainable Environments at Northern Arizona University, where he also teaches as a Professor in Environmental Sciences, Applied Indigenous Studies, and Masters of Liberal Studies. Nabhan is widely recognized as being among the leading voices in ethnobiology and conservation biology in the Americas, having worked with more than a dozen indigenous communities on cross-cultural initiatives to protect plants, habitats, and agricultural traditions. For this work and his related writings, he has received a MacArthur “Genius” award, a lifetime achievement award from the Society of Conservation Biology, and the John Burroughs Medal for nature writing. Author of fifteen books and more than a hundred articles that have appeared in Nature, Conservation Genetics, Ecological Applications, Audubon, American Anthropologist, and The New York Times, Nabhan’s work moves from policy to practice, as his co-sponsorship of the Flagstaff community Farmer’s Market demonstrates. His most recent book, Coming Home to Eat: The Pleasures and Politics of Local Foods, documents his year long journey to obtain the majority of his sustenance from a 250-mile radius from his home. He and his wife Laurie Monti raise Navajo-Churro sheep and native crops in the pygmy woodlands near Winona, Arizona.
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