Freedom, ME

In 1978, Frank co-founded the National Audubon Society Expedition Institute (AEI), which created degree programs in environmental education for undergraduate and master's students. He worked, lived, and learned throughout the US for 38 semesters of field studies on a traveling school bus. Beginning in 1990, for 34 years, he was a professor at Lesley University, designing and teaching courses and programs for undergraduate, master’s, and PhD students, retiring in 2023 as an Emeritus Associate Professor of Science Studies. Since the summer of 1989 (when he spent a year living at a Navajo trading post), he has participated in field study with traditional Navajo Chanters in healing ceremonies on the Navajo Indian Reservation in Arizona and New Mexico. These visits, including participation in Nightway, Coyoteway, Protectionway, and Kinaaldá ceremonies, and much time socializing, talking, sweat lodging, and working with the Navajo, has given him a glimpse into the world of Chanters and apprentices, Skinwalkers, Hand Tremblers, Crystal-gazers, Listeners, and Star-gazers. He is presently a member of the Wayfinder Board, Camden, ME, and the chair of the board of the Cobscook Institute, Trescott, Maine.