About Maceo

Maceo is an ecologist, educator, author, and father who seeks out  better ways to treat each other and the Earth.

After finishing his doctoral degree in water ecology and science education, he began working as a restoration ecologist and planner which has allowed him to work with communities across the U.S. southwest and overseas. For over two decades, Maceo has co-created, implemented, and collaborated on award-winning community-based hands-on cultural education projects. He has participated on various advisory boards and study groups on sustainability, water conservation, and environmental education, and teaches a university class on watershed and community restoration planning and implementation.

His work has been featured in Progressive Media Project, Indian Country Today, Green Fire Times, and other publications, and is the author of Healing the Land Teaches Us Who We Are, published in 2026 by North Atlantic Books. This book emerges from his work with restoration, education, and culture over the past two decades.

Born next to the ocean, in San Francisco, CA, to a working-class family steeped in social justice, anti-colonial, and international humanism, Maceo was raised to be proud of his mixed Cuban/Taíno and Chicano/Mestizo heritage. More importantly, he was raised to see his humanity as infinitely bound to the pulsating galaxy we call humanity. Presently he lives with his family in the arid southwest, another kind of ocean, where he stays busy learning from the land.