Rick Stepp is an ethnobiologist and the G. P. Wilder Professor of Botany at the University of Hawaii. ^[1] His work examines the strong relationship between biological diversity and cultural diversity. ^{[2] [3]} He has also been involved in research on the importance of weeds as medicinal plants for indigenous peoples.^[4][5] This work has garnered notice in the popular press because it is in opposition to lay notions about indigenous uses of the rainforest.^[6] He was the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Ethnobiology from 2005-2008.

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