Tovar Cerulli
Senior Writer / Social Scientist
Tovar’s lifelong curiosity about human relationships with the larger-than-human natural world has shaped his life and work. It led him to become a hunter after a decade as a vegan. It led him to apprentice with a forester-logger. And it led him to graduate school, where he coined the phrase “adult-onset hunter” and researched Ojibwe and Euro-American hunting communities’ ways of talking about wolves.
Tovar has collaborated with state, federal, and nonprofit organizations—including the Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources, the U.S. Geological Survey, and the Wildlife Management Institute—on communication strategy, messaging design, and community engagement.
He is the author of The Mindful Carnivore: A Vegetarian’s Hunt for Sustenance and has written for Outdoor America, Bugle, High Country News, and Northern Woodlands, among others. He holds a PhD in communication from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Each summer, he drives from Vermont to Cape Cod, where he and his uncle paddle a weathered aluminum canoe around harbors and bays in pursuit of fluke and black sea bass.
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