Zach Herring

Zachary Herring is currently a graduate student at the Yale School of the Environment. His research is exploring sustainable community through the study of festivals, intentional communities, and “alternative”/ancestral modes of existence, in order to better understand how the human species might live together more harmoniously. This study is interdisciplinary in nature, meeting at the nexus of social science, evolutionary biology, anthropology, architecture, theology, and indigenous ecological/spiritual knowledge. Prior to his studies at Yale, Zach was a middle school science and sex ed teacher at George Jackson Academy, a school in New York City designed to service underprivileged boys of color. He is a huge fan of Star Trek, love practicing Jiu-jitsu, and enjoy exploring the mystical and magical. It is his life’s purpose to be a conduit by which the universe might guide his work on this planet, to help in doing his part in bringing about an existence that supports and nourishes life and love here on planet Earth and beyond.