A Kootenai and Salish Native American by descent, Hazen was born and raised in Spokane, Wash., where he still lives much of the year when he’s not filming. Hazen holds a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Western Washington University. He has studied Botany and Zoology at Eastern Washington University and Northwest Indian College, and he has done advanced studies in Tropical Ecology at the University of Hawaii. He speaks four languages, including English, Spanish, Bahasa, and Quichua. From a young age, Hazen has loved plants and animals, but it was the biodiversity of the rainforest in South America that fascinated him the most. At 18, right after graduating high school, Hazen moved to the rainforest in Ecuador and started a guiding business as a way to support himself while he went to college. He ended up falling even more in love with the rainforest than he ever could’ve imagined and returned every summer for ten years. It wasn’t long before he realized that he had a true gift for understanding and explaining the landscape. Educating came naturally to him, especially when he was sharing knowledge of a subject he was truly passionate about. After college, Hazen became a high school biology teacher where he used his own experiences to teach his students about biology and science in a manner that was exciting and natural. Hazen's teaching style has always been to educate through adventure.
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