Ryan is a web weaver and a bringer of people and ideas. He has taught and facilitated ecological literacy for over 22 years both inside and outside the formal classroom with ages 3 through 18.  He has also worked with adults in school leadership and as a community organizer for the last 11 years and is excited about Mycellium Cooperative as a multi-generational regenerative futures community of learning.

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Ryan is a "re-wilding" practitioner and has been since age 3.  He honors the natural and inherent beauty of human migration while still being accountable to repair settler colonial oppression and border imperialism. He resides on stolen native land, Tsêhéstáno (Cheyenne) and Hinono'eino (Arapaho) unceded territory and works towards reconciliation through Land Back initiatives.  His heart and soul are rooted in the intermountain west bio-region but like all White Americans his relatives are immigrants.  Born and raised in Denver, attending integrated DPS schools (Park Hill Elementary 1989; Smiley Middle 1992; Manual High School 1996).

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He reveres the interweaving of life and organizes for climate justice transitions addressing the human induced Sixth Mass Extinction.  He aims to help students and society participate in the global movement to protect life on Earth, sometimes listening to “youth wisdom” before listening to “adults”.  For the last several years, while working as an Ecological Literacy Specialist in Denver Public Schools and in Salt Lake City Public Schools, he has been a researcher and practitioner of Land Based and Nature Based Pedagogy and/or Forest Schools and also creating modified Forest School programming for public schools.