Prescott College

Gary Paul Nabhan is an agricultural ecologist, ethnobotanist, and writer whose work has focused primarily on the plants and cultures of the desert... Southwest. He is considered a pioneer in the local food movement and the heirloom seed saving movement. A first generation Lebanese-American, Nabhan was raised in Gary, Indiana. He served as Director of Science at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum and co-founded Native Seeds/SEARCH, a nonprofit conservation organization that works to preserve indigenous southwestern agricultural plants as well as knowledge of their uses. Nabhan was the founding director of the Center for Sustainable Environments at Northern Arizona University. In 2008 he joined the University of Arizona faculty as a Research Social Scientist with the Southwest Center, where he now serves as the Kellogg Endowed Chair in Southwestern Borderlands Food and Water Security. Nabhan won the John Burroughs Medal for distinguished natural history writing. He was also the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship. He was named an Utne Reader visionary in 2011. He has also been honored with two honorary PhD.
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