Wade Davis, Keynote Speaker at Gala

  • By Ben Van Camp
April 7, 2004
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Joining American Whitewater as a guest speaker will be Wade Davis, a professional speaker for nearly twenty years has lectured at over 70 universities, numerous corporate groups and professional associations. Wade Davis is an Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society. Named by the Geographic as one of the “Explorers for the Millennium”, Wade Davis is an anthropologist and plant explorer who received his Ph.D. in ethnobotany from Harvard University. He has worked as a guide, park ranger, and forestry engineer. 

 

Described by ABC’s 20/20 as a real life Indiana Jones, Davis spent three years in the Amazon and Andes searching for new medicinal drugs, before heading to Haiti to investigate folk poisons used to create zombies.   Davis will be speaking on his working documenting and preserving the worlds ecosystems and the effect river restoration has on that process. He is author of five other books, including One River (1996), Shadows in the Sun (1998) and Light at the Edge of the World (2001) 

 

For additional information on Wade Davis please check his personal webpage and the National Geographic Website.  A complete biography of Wade Davis works is also available on the Gala Event Website

 

Click here for additional information regarding the 50th Anniversary Gala Event.  Tickets are limited and going quickly call or email Ben VanCamp at (828) 252-0728.

 

 

American Whitewater would recognize and thank Teva and Volkswagen for their support in securing Wade Davis as the keynote speaker for the 50th Anniversary Gala.

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