Heidi Steltzer, PhD, is a mountain scientist, speaker, writer, and professor. She is a lead author on High Mountains for an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report in 2019 and is working on her first book, stories of mountain science and discovery about how ‘The Earth Changes Us‘. She is the founder of the Heidi Mountains Cooperative, a non-profit organization in Cortez, Colorado that honors science, faith and relational leadership in service to one another and our planet. She is a professor of Environment and Sustainability at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado.