Professor of Geography and Native Studies
The Evergreen State College
Zoltán has been a Member of the Faculty in Geography and Native American & Indigenous Studies since 2005 at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. He is a longtime community organizer from Wisconsin, and earned his Ph.D. in Geography and Graduate Minor in American Indian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2002. He is a past co-chair of the Indigenous Peoples Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers. He was co-editor of Asserting Native Resilience: Pacific Rim Indigenous Nations Face the Climate Crisis (Oregon State University Press, 2012), and author of Unlikely Alliances: Native Nations and White Communities Join to Defend Rural Lands (University of Washington Press, 2017). He has also edited student publications such as the Fossil Fuel Connections website (2016), Removing Barriers book (2021), and Olympia’s Hidden Histories StoryMaps walking tours (2022-23). His faculty website is https://sites.evergreen.edu/zoltan.