Max Mandler

Max graduated from Warren Wilson in 2017. They spent their last year of school teaching forging techniques to new crew members as one of two student crew leaders for the Blacksmith Crew. Max went on to start a business making high quality steel tools and infrastructure for individuals and community projects. They also co-founded Liberation Tools, a solidarity project that sells forged garden tools at twice the cost of production to fund free distribution of tools to BIPOC land stewards.