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Dave Shaw lives in a little log cabin, off the grid, in the boreal forest north of Fairbanks, Alaska. He earns a diverse living from a combination of working as a wildlife biologist, wilderness and naturalist guide, and as a freelance writer/photographer. He has an undergraduate degree from The Evergreen State College and a masters in wildlife biology from the University of Alaska. He has traveled and guided extensively in South and Central America, Asia and even Antarctica. Check out his website at www.wildimagephoto.com.
Kurt Shaw, the executive director or Shine a Light, is respected throughout South America as one of the continent's premier thinkers on children and social change.  In addition to his work teaching marginalized children to make documentary and fictional films, he is an accomplished mountaineer, explorer, and skier.