Rusty Pritchard

Dr. Lowell “Rusty” Pritchard is a resource economist, and he is the co-founder and President of Flourish, a national Christian ministry that serves churches, families and individuals as they grow in environmental stewardship, healthy living, and radical discipleship. Prior to coming to Flourish he was a full-time faculty member at Emory University in Environmental Studies, a program he helped create in 1999. He has taught courses in natural resource economics, environmental institutions, public health, resource use and management, environmental justice, ecological economics, and environmental decision-making under uncertainty. He has given lectures and organized workshops in fifteen countries on five continents. Pritchard has worked with hunter/angler and forestry organizations on developing voluntary, market-based programs for conservation on private agriculture and forestry lands. From 1994 to 1999 he was a program officer with an international global change research program studying the effects of land-use and land-cover changes on the atmospheric system.
Dr. Pritchard holds degrees from Duke University (B.S., zoology) and University of Florida (Ph.D., resource economics; M.S., environmental engineering sciences).
Dr. Pritchard lives in inner-city Atlanta with his wife and three children, where they serve in a multi-racial church doing church-planting, neighborhood evangelism, and community development. He is a regular speaker on creation care, economics, and discipleship at churches, Christian colleges, youth groups, and community organizations. He grew up in North Florida and enjoys gardening, canoeing, fishing, and Southern barbecue.