Gary Paul Nabhan is an Arab American agro-ecologist, ethnobotanist, literary naturalist, and Ecumenical Franciscan Brother who lives near the U.S.-Mexico border. His collaborations with O’odham families and pueblos on both sides of the border now spans forty-five years. He is the recipient of a MacArthur Genius Award, a Labán Literary Fellowship, and several other honors for his cross-cultural, community-based conservation initiatives to safeguard and restore biocultural diversity, sacred places, and food traditions. He holds the W. K. Kellogg Chair in Borderlands Foods and Water Security at the University of Arizona Southwest Center.