John Hausdoerffer is an author and teacher from Gunnison, Colorado, where he serves as the Dean of the Clark School of Environment & Sustainability at Western Colorado University. He has written and co-edited titles such as Catlin's Lament, Wildness, What Kind of Ancestor Do You Want to Be?, and his forthcoming series Kinship​ with Gavin Van Horn and Robin Wall Kimmerer. John is a Fellow at the Center for Humans and Nature.​