Walt runs the tours, programs, marketing, public relations, and overall visitor experience at Yerkes. He has been in radio, television, tourism, and events for twenty-five years and comes to Yerkes after sixteen years at Chicago Trolley & Double Decker where he began as a tour guide and became executive director. He has lived and studied in Berkeley, Seattle, Barcelona, Edinburgh, and Goiânia in the heart of Brazil. He has a degree in poetry and creative writing at the University of Arkansas. Walt and his wife Kate got married at Yerkes and live nearby on their wooded acre with their baby Charles.