David Shorter was raised in New Mexico and attended college both at Arizona State University and the University of California Santa Cruz. After receiving his PhD in the History of Consciousness, he went on to teach at Wesleyan University in Connecticut and Indiana University in Bloomington. Currently a professor at the University of California Los Angeles, he lives in the great neighborhood of Silver Lake. His first book, We Will Dance Our Truth, evolves from decades of learning about indigenous lifeways, primarily among the Yoeme communities in northwest Mexico. Dr. Shorter's work explores other-than-human relations and the myths and rituals of native people around the globe. Among his favorite classes to teach are "Tribal Worldviews," “Ethnographies of/as Colonialism,” "Indigenous Religions," and "Aliens, Psychics and Ghosts."