Bio

General Counsel and Director of Finance

Dan is a lawyer with a private practice in Santa Fe. For the Academy, he handles matters of finance and law throughout all program, development, and administration departments. His work for other clients includes fostering the right of local self-government and the rights of nature.

Dan studied accounting at Penn State University (B.A. 1990) and law at George Washington University (J.D. 1993). He is working on a Master’s Degree in Liberal Arts at St. John’s College (anticipated 2016).

As the Academy’s core program investigates the questions: Who Am I?, Who Are We?, What Is It?, Dan helps the creative people inside the organization navigate the uncreative waters of compliance on the outside.