This is the one @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social

I’ve been kicking around this thought as well. Let’s chat soon!

I still write and think about policy (now largely through my films & media) but I’ve also been building my substack - all at once by dr Len Necefer as well. Cheers and lets connect open.substack.com/pub/drlennec...

I’m also one of the board members of the Honnold Foundation www.honnoldfoundation.org

Most recently we spent three weeks in the National Petroleum Reserve Alaska documenting this region before large scale development begins at the Willow project. All on packrafts.

In recent years we’ve built a powerhouse of indigenous talent from professional outdoor athletes, to filmmakers, to political organizers to use mass media to shape the narrative around env. issues. That has taken us to places like the Bolivian Amazon to film illegal gold mining

I jumped on a tenure track role at the University of Arizona for a couple years and eventually saw the sands shifting beneath my feet - mainly the public trusting experts and institutions less and less. I decided to jump ship and put my time an energy into my company

www.natives-outdoors.org

This film led to a testimony in front of the House Natural Resources Committee in 2019 where I famously time checked Arizona Insurrectionist Congressman Paul Gosar

I worked in the US Department of Energy for a few years and left 8 months into the 1st Trump administration. That departure led to making my first film. www.outsideonline.com/video/welcom...

For the academics I’ve published a few papers on the role of culture in technical policy development. I came from an engineering background so this jump into social sciences pried open my brain to the complexities of society. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...