Blake Everson

With a cross-sector background spanning public policy, media, land stewardship and tourism, Blake brings a unique combination of complex problem-solving skills, storytelling acumen and field-tested leadership. For nearly two decades, he has built longstanding, trust-based relationships with landowners across Papua New Guinea.

Shaped by an environmental lens and guided by an anthropologist’s sensitivity, Blake has spent years engaging with Papua New Guinea’s ethnographic, political, and natural history. But the real source of his knowledge comes from lived experience. Since his first solo crossing of PNG in 2006, he has walked vast tracts of the country, living in remote villages and forging friendships that have endured for decades. This long-term presence has earned trust and respect at community level, making him adept at navigating local governance systems, brokering partnerships, and ensuring projects are embraced and sustained by those they are designed to serve..

He resides in Sun Valley, Idaho, with his wife and two children, who have been raised in close relationship with the land, people, and spirit of Papua New Guinea.