Rick Curtis

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June 9, 2021

40 years of leading outdoor education at Princeton

Rick Curtis has been Director of Princeton University’s outdoor education program for 40 yrs. Tens of thousands of students have joined these small group experiences in the outdoors and benefited from team building, personal growth and leadership development.

Rick Curtis has served as Director of the outdoor education program at Princeton University for 40 years. He has utilized small group experiences in the outdoors for team building, personal growth and leadership development for tens of thousands of students. He has helped people develop their skills in the outdoors through his book The Backpacker’s Field Manual, published by Penguin Random House and through his web site—OutdoorEd.com—which has been an online resource for outdoor education professionals since 2001. Rick has focused specifically on risk management and accident prevention and is the CEO and Founder of IncidentAnalytix, a cloud-based Risk Management Information System. He has consulted and lectured internationally on outdoor education and risk management for over twenty-five years.

Resources:
Princeton University Outdoor Action
Incident Analytix
The Backpacker’s Field Manual
OutdoorEd.com
How to Be an Anti-Racist (Ibram X. Kendi)

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