Jim Babbitt was born and raised in Flagstaff and holds degrees from Stanford and the University of California, Berkeley. He has worked with his family's business enterprises for nearly thirty years and ran the Babbitt trading posts on the Navajo and Hopi reservations in the 1980s. He is a frequent contributor to The Journal of Arizona History and sits on the boards of the Grand Canyon Trust, the Arizona Historical Society, and Western National Parks Association.
Jim Babbitt was born and raised in Flagstaff and holds degrees from Stanford and the University of California, Berkeley. He has worked with his family's business enterprises for nearly thirty years and ran the Babbitt trading posts on the Navajo and Hopi reservations in the 1980s. He is a frequent contributor to The Journal of Arizona History and sits on the boards of the Grand Canyon Trust, the Arizona Historical Society, and Western National Parks Association.