John Huchra is one of the most naturally gifted extragalactic observers working today. He was educated in physics at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and earned his PhD from Caltech (California Institute of Technology), but has spent most of his professional career at Harvard-Smithsonian. John's interests span cosmology, galaxy cluster dynamics, the large structure in the Universe, and star formation across the Universe. John is an avid outdoorsman, enjoying hiking, canoeing, and skiing. He and his wife Rebecca Henderson live in Lexington, Massachusetts, with their young son, Harry. John's specialty is doing large-scale projects in a field more often dominated by one- and two-person teams, something he tells us about here.