Daniel Kemmis

Daniel Kemmis is an Associate of the Charles F. Kettering Foundation and a Senior Fellow at the Center for Natural Resources and Environmental Policy. Previously a director and senior fellow at the Center for the Rocky Mountain West, Mr. Kemmis was formerly Mayor of Missoula, Montana, and also served as Speaker and Minority Leader of the Montana House of Representatives. Mr. Kemmis is the author of 3 books: Community and The Politics of Place; The Good City and the Good Life; and This Sovereign Land: A New Vision for Governing the West. Mr. Kemmis’s work has been honored in a variety of ways. He was recognized by the Utne Reader as one of its “100 Visionaries.” President Clinton awarded Mr. Kemmis the Charles Frankel Prize for outstanding contribution to the field of the humanities. He was the recipient of the Society for Conservation Biology’s Distinguished Achievement Award for Social, Economic and Political work, and the Center of the American West awarded him the Wallace Stegner Prize for sustained contribution to the cultural identity of the West. He was awarded a fellowship at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics. This Sovereign Land was the top choice for the Interior Department’s Executive Forum Speaker Series. He recently received the Ruckelshaus Award for Collaborative Leadership from the Policy Consensus Initiative, and the Fahrenkamp Award for his contributions to public policy in the West, from the Council of State Governments West. Mr. Kemmis serves on the Board of Directors of Philanthropy Northwest and the Missoula Redevelopment Agency. He is the immediate past Chair of the Board of the Northwest Area Foundation and serves on the Public Policy Committee of the Council on Foundations. Mr. Kemmis is a graduate of Harvard University and The University of Montana School of Law.