Archives: Biographies

Beth Rodden

Beth Rodden

Beth Rodden is a professional climber living in Yosemite, Calif., with her husband, son and big, brown goofball dog. She currently is writing a memoir....
Chris Kalman

Chris Kalman

Chris Kalman is a freelance writer, an editor for the American Alpine Journal, and one of the hosts of The Cutting Edge podcast. He is the author of a climbing ...
Nancy Trott

Nancy Trott

Nancy Trott is manager of internal communications for the co-op. She grew up on a horse farm in Connecticut, which is where she developed her love of the outdoo...
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Maura Rendes

Maura is an internal communications program manager for REI and a 2017 Anderson Award recipient. When not at the co-op, Maura is outside running on trails, stan...
Stasia Stockwell

Stasia Stockwell

Stasia Stockwell is a freelance journalist based in Breckenridge, Colorado. Whether skiing, trail running, mountain biking or bushwhacking, she’s happiest on (o...
Brianna Randall

Brianna Randall

Brianna Randall is a freelance writer and the founder of Adventure Families. She lives in Montana, chasing her young kids along rivers and through the mountains...
Chris Speyer

Chris Speyer

Chris Speyer is Vice President of Product and Executive Sponsor of the Prism Inclusion Network. When he’s not working at the co-op, you can find him riding his ...
Susan Viscon

Susan Viscon

Susan Viscon has been with REI for over 25 years and currently serves as the co-op's SVP of Corporate Development and Investment. She is also the executive spon...
Mike Faulk

Mike Faulk

Mike Faulk is a freelance journalist with 10 years experience working across the U.S. from Appalachia to the Ozarks to the Cascades. When he's off the clock, he...
Faith E. Briggs

Faith E. Briggs

Faith E. Briggs is a documentary filmmaker and a creative with a focus on the art of representation. It is her goal to create media representative of the world ...
Wilma Wallace

Wilma Wallace

Wilma Wallace is REI’s chief diversity and social impact officer. As a lifelong social justice advocate with a rich background in global human rights, Wilma is ...
Dave Zook

Dave Zook

Dave Zook studied journalism at the University of Oregon and later worked as an editor at independent newspaper Moonshine Ink in Truckee, California. He now foc...