Jess Falkenhagen lives in an old adobe house at the foot of the Sangre de Cristo mountains in Northern New Mexico. She has a background in Cultural Anthropology and travels, take pictures and reads as much as possible. This website is primarily a place for her to gather her photographs and lists in one place.

Contact

jessluddite@gmail.com

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  • +Cultural Anthropology/Indigenous Self Determination (over a decade of fieldwork in Kuna Yala, San Blas, Panama, MA, ABD on PhD)

    +Waldorf Education (Westside Waldorf School Board of Trustees: 2014-2018, Executive Committee/Board Secretary 2015-2018, Chair of Parent Education Committee, Founding Member of Media Committee, Santa Fe Waldorf School Board of Trustees: 2022- 2024)

    +Poetry (published in journals/lit mags)

    +Photography (published in journals/photo mags)

    +Midwifery (trained at National College of Midwifery 2020-21, including volunteer work at Maternidad La Luz Birth center in El Paso, Tx)

    +Search and Rescue (active member Santa Fe Search and Rescue Team: Jan 2019 to 2025)

    +Screen-free Childhood

  • adventures

    +traveled overland through 9 countries in West Africa

    +dog sledded around Svalbard in the Arctic Circle

    +hiked the Grand Canyon rim to rim

    +hiked the Jordan Trail from Wadi Dana to Petra

    +hiked in Caucasus Mts of Russia

    +Hiked Tatras Mts of Poland and Slovakia

    +Climbed Mt Kinabalu, Sabah, Borneo

    + hiked the Via Dinarica in Bosnia & Herzegovina, Montenegro and Albania 

    +spent 4 months rock climbing, caving, canyoneering and winter camping in the Rocky Mountains , USA

    +lived in a small town in Central Mexico for a year (during historic year that saw the passing of Nafta, Zapatista uprising in Chiapas, Colosio assassination)

    +Sailed as crew on an 85 year old wooden sailboat from San Francisco to Costa Rica

    + traveled solo from Columbia to Patagonia for 7 months