Shay Sloan Clarke, Executive Director for Nourishing Futures and Interim ED for the Maidu Summit Consortium, is a practitioner of rites of passage, circle, and embodied anti-racism as well as a guide, trainer, convenor, facilitator, consultant, and educator. Shay, whose past positions have included: founding Director of the Indigenous & Community Lands & Seas program for The WILD Foundation and the World Wilderness Congress, and Executive Director of both The Ojai Foundation and the Global Center for Indigenous Leadership & Lifeways, is co-editor of: Protecting Wild Nature on Native Lands, and co-author of: Cross-Cultural Protocols in Rites of Passage: Guiding Principles, Themes and Inquiry.