Ian Hunt
Debut author Ian Hunt has worked in conservation throughout the Sierra Mountains and held jobs planting trees in wildfire burn scars, maintaining backcountry trails, conserving water, hardening homes for fires, planting native habitats, and cultivating edible landscapes. He earned his MA in Climate and Society from the Columbia University Climate School, and he now resides in NYC, where he is an advocate for climate education and climate action. You can finding him exploring the city's bookstores, swimming pools, and beaches.​
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photo: Dean Maupin
About
Author and climate rofessional Ian Hunt was born in Ohio where he fondly remembers winters filled with snow and sledding. When studying theatre in Indianapolis, Hunt noticed the winters getting warmer and less snowy, while also noticing pollution in the communities around where he grew up and lived.
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When the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the theatre industry, Hunt pivoted to the Backcountry trails program, where he lived in a tent, had mules hike his crew letters from the outside world, and immersed himself in conservation work in the California Sierras. From there he worked in water conservation in the Yosemite area. In California, Hunt witnessed, and evacuated from wildfires first hand, and experienced significant weather variability that affected his work and home security enough to understand that the climate crisis has arrived well into the modern day.
Hunt moved to NYC to earn his MA in Climate + Society from the Columbia Climate School, where he still resides. Working in the Circular Economy, Hunt writes anywhere and everywhere he can. Most of his writing centers on how people can help change the world for the better.
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Work Experience
April- Oct 2021
Jan 2022- March 2023
Summer 2023
Fall 2024
Present
Joined the Backcountry Trails Program, and fell in love with conservation work. Got dirty and hiked to work everyday, it was a dream.
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Studying and writing Theatre, focusing my theses on climate theatre.
Lived and worked in the Yosemite area, doing water conservation, fire home hardening, rainwater, greywater, and blackwater reuse systems, habitat installation, burn scar tree planting, emergency erosion control response, and more! If it helped the planet, I was doing it.
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In the greater Cincinnati area, installed native habitat, food forests, and urban gardens.
Earned MA in Climate and Society from the Columbia Climate School
Working in the circular economy in NYC, and writing! Climate Action for Kids out April 7, 2026, and to be announced project in the works!
