SOUTHWEST SEMINARS: A Voice for the Voiceless: 30 Years of Service for the Wild

Presented by: John Horning

Presenter bio: Former Executive Director, WildEarth Guardians; Born and raised in Washington, D.C., grew up on a street which bordered Rock Creek Park, one of the wildest urban parks in the country, a childhood cultivating an appreciation for the solace of wild spaces and searching for salamanders, hearing Pileated wood peckers and watching fire flies light up summer evenings. Cultivated a life-long appreciation of Wallace Stegner, the writer and the man, at Colorado College. After biking around the country and working for a variety of environmental education & advocacy groups John joined the staff of what later would become WildEarth Guardians in 1994.