Kirk Myers is a longtime REI employee and sustainable business leader who focuses on answering the question, “What should be better as REI grows and thrives?” H...
Charlotte Austin is an award-winning adventure writer and international mountain guide who has led climbing, mountaineering and hiking expeditions around the wo...
Shelma Jun is the founder of Flash Foxy and the Women's Climbing Festival. Flash Foxy was created in 2014 to celebrate women climbing with women and to be a pla...
Matt Liddle manages Outdoor Programs and Outreach teams for REI Co-op in the Mid-Atlantic. He’s dedicated to the vitality of outdoor culture. And like lots of t...
Ann Bieri has been a writer at REI for nine years. She grew up exploring the Hill Country outside Austin, Texas, has traveled to 27 other countries and lived in...
Catherine Walker served the co-op for 18 years as a board member and as general counsel. Recently retired, she now spends even more time outdoors—exploring the ...
Miranda Weiss is the author of Tide, Feather, Snow: A Life in Alaska. Her science and nature writing has appeared in the American Scholar, the Washington Post, ...
Florence Williams is the author of The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier and More Creative (W.W. Norton, 2017). Winner of the 2013 L.A. Times B...
Cam Brensinger founded NEMO Equipment in 2002 and serves as its CEO and lead designer and innovator. He currently lives with his wife, two young children and 12...
Elisia Williams has practiced yoga from the cool shade of a 600-year-old Douglas Fir tree in Washington to the warm beaches of Puerto Rico. She is currently exp...
Shawnté Salabert is a Los Angeles-based freelance writer interested in the connections between humans and the natural world. Her work has appeared in Outside, A...
