Adam has worked for two decades in community-based, place-based environmental nonprofits that work to protect biodiversity, terrestrial and marine ecosystems, and public lands and waters such as national parks, marine sanctuaries, and wilderness areas. He also started a successful grant-making initiative to support renewable energy projects in tribal communities across the U.S.

Adam is a two-spirit Lakota, passionate about protecting Mother Earth as an enrolled member of the Oceti Sakowin Oyate (Oglala Sioux Tribe). He hails from the Black Hills and Badlands of South Dakota.

Adam holds an undergraduate degree from St. Olaf College, graduate degrees from Columbia and Stanford, and an executive certificate in nonprofit leadership from Harvard.

Adam currently serves on the National Advisory Board of the Haas Center for Public Service at Stanford and he is a lifetime member of Stanford Associates, the university’s honorary organization for alumni volunteer service. Previously, he served on the board of directors of the Stanford Alumni Association and several alumni clubs, including the Stanford Indigenous Alumni Association, Stanford Pride, and the Stanford Club of San Francisco.

Additionally, Adam is co-chair of the nominations committee for National Philanthropy Day in San Francisco and actively volunteers with Justice Outside. In his free time, you can find him walking in nature, often with a big smile on his face.