The Wilderness Society welcomed new leaders to the Governing Council, including Jim Enote. Jim Enote is a Zuni tribal member and CEO of the Colorado Plateau Foundation. He serves on the boards of the Trust for Mutual Understanding, Grand Canyon Trust, and formally with Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation. He is a National Geographic Society Explorer, a New Mexico Community Luminaria, and an E.F. Schumacher Society Fellow.
While serving as the director of the A:shiwi A:wan Museum in 2010, Jim was awarded the first Ames Prize for Innovative Museum Anthropology during the American Anthropological Association’s annual conference. In 2013 he received the Guardian of Culture and Lifeways Award from the Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums, and in 2016 received the Hewett Award for leadership and service to the New Mexico museum community and for achievements in the museum field. He lives in Zuni, New Mexico.
"My appointment to the Governing Council signals a right-minded soul searching around principles and definitions of wildlands and wilderness,” said Enote. “This new discourse will enable more inclusive and righteous wilderness ambitions and potentially more tribal interests and strategic collaborative protections. For these reasons, it is time for me to step into the wilderness master plan at the highest levels of influence and authority."
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