Biography

After two years studying survival skills and cultural mentoring at Wilderness Awareness School near Seattle, WA, I completed a degree in anthropology at McGill university, focusing both on African indigenous groups and Canadian First Nations. At Cambridge, I hope to study how hunter-gatherer children learn the skills needed to survive in their environment, in order to infer how our human ancestors did so as well. I hope that this research culminates in a better understanding of the evolutionary roots of learning, in order to help make changes to the schools that serve children in the western world, and in indigenous communities alike.