Nate Summers, author of Resilient by Nature, has been a survival skills instructor for over 20 years with a background in ehthnobotany, anthropology, survival training, and natural medicine. He taught and directed at the Wilderness Awareness School for over 15 years, and has served as faculty for the Desert Institute of Healing Arts, and as adjunct faculty for Prescott College. Nate's passions include ethnobotany, natural mentoring, hunter-gatherer childhoods, natural movement, herbal medicine, and internal martial arts. His teaching emphasizes a positive and not fear-based approach to resilience, survival, and preparedness.