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 semi=primitively 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 skill 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 in the art and science of providing for themselves from the land. Ruth Ann deeply values the process of learning through experiential methods and mentoring, the integration of skills and understanding through experience and reflection, and the building of human relationships through cooperative learning and growth.