Ruth Ann Colby Martin

Ruth Ann earned her BA in Outdoor Experiential Education and MSM studying deep nature and ancestral connection to increase well-being and a sense of belonging. She spent a year living in the woods, building her shelter, foraging, brain-tanning hides for clothing, weaving baskets, and practicing survival and tracking skills before teaching for nearly a decade at the Tracker School, mentoring students in the arts of survival, awareness, and tracking. Ruth Ann has designed programming and mentored wilderness skills for various venues and ages, for nearly thirty years. She is an outdoor adventurer, mountaineer, marathoner, midwife, and faculty at the Midwives College of Utah. She has lived for 25+ years on a homestead, homeschooling and raising three children and deeply values the process of learning and integrating skills through experience and mentoring, and the building of human relationships through cooperative learning.