Dr. John Hausdoerffer is an author, teacher, philosopher, and organizational founder who lives in Mt Crested Butte, CO. He has authored and edited books such as Catlin’s Lament: Indians, Manifest Destiny, and the Ethics of Nature; Wildness: Relations of People and Place; What Kind of Ancestor Do You Want to Be?; and Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations. Dr. John has co-founded the Clark School of Environment & Sustainability, The Coldharbour Institute, The Resilience Studies Consortium, and the Mountain Resilience Coalition. He believes that being a good ancestor begins with understanding the place-based ecological bases of our identities and continues with the willingness to joyfully fight for the conditions necessary for those ecological bases to thrive. When not serving as Dean of the Clark School of Environment & Sustainability, Dr. John can be found with his daughters working on his shack above Pitkin or pursuing his daughters’ 100th consecutive month of skiing in the Elk Mountains.
