Darron Collins is the Executive Director of the Cromwell Harbor Foundation (CHF), an enterprise dedicated to supporting extraordinary early career scholars who exhibit tremendous range and syncretic approaches to their work. Before joining CHF, Darron was president of the College of the Atlantic (COA). During his 13-year tenure he quadrupled the college’s endowment and established COA as the preeminent college dedicated to understanding and improving the relationship between humans and the environment, a quality recognized by The Princeton Review, which has ranked COA as the top green college in the country for 10 years running. Darron was managing director with the World Wildlife Fund before joining COA and managed global conservation projects in the Amazon, Central America, Mongolia, and the Russian Far East. He received his BA in human ecology from COA and his PhD in anthropology from Tulane University where he conducted ethnobotanical research in northern Guatemala with the Q’eqchi’-Maya. Darron speaks Spanish fluently and is conversational in Portuguese, Q’eqchi’-Maya, and Irish. He serves on the boards of From Houses to Homes, Guatemala, Outer Coast College, and Maine Coast Heritage Trust.