Mardi Fuller advocates for racial equity through writing, speaking and community building. She lives in Boston, Massachusetts, and works as a freelance writer,...
Lyla “Sugar” Harrod is a sober, queer transgender woman with over 11,000 miles of long-distance hiking experience. She is the first transgender woman to complet...
Paulette Perhach is a freelance writer, speaker, and writing coach whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Vox and Elle. REI Member since 2017....
Mary Beth "Mouse" Skylis is a long-distance backpacker and freelance writer who specializes in movement and travel. She works as a columnist for Backpacker Maga...
Kimberly Wheatley is a pediatric emergency nurse, world traveler and self-proclaimed late bloomer when it comes to the outdoors. With her kayak in tow, she love...
Holly Yu Tung Chen (she/her) has been writing creatively since she could hold a crayon. She published an award-winning, national-bestselling young adult novel o...
Keith Erps knows that the goodness outside is closer than you think. Learning how to access experiences outside while learning to navigate disability has shifte...
Rebecca Campbell is a U.K.-based mum of two and a freelance journalist. When she's not sitting at her laptop or juggling life as a parent, she enjoys running or...
Sara K. Runnels is a seasoned copywriter, humor writer and writer-writer living in Seattle, Washington. Her work regularly appears in The New Yorker, McSweeney’...
Kamilah Journét is a distance runner, marketing strategist, environmentalist and USATF level 1 certified running coach based in Portland, Oregon. REI member sin...
Talia Lakshmi Kolluri is a mixed South Asian American writer from Northern California. Her debut collection of short stories, What We Fed to the Manticore (Tin ...
