Archives: Biographies

Liz Keena

Liz Keena

Liz is the retail communications program manager at REI. As a Pacific Northwest transplant, she enjoys exploring all the unique outdoor areas Washington State o...
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Cassie da Costa

Cassie da Costa is on the content and media team at REI, editing stories for Uncommon Path and Expert Advice related to Run and Watersports. A former film criti...
Will is the Co-op Living Archive and Impact Communications Program Manager at REI. Originally from Colorado, Will now enjoys getting lost in the PNW rain forests and scanning the landscape for birds. Member since 2009.

Will Dunn

Will is the Co-op Living Archive and Impact Communications Program Manager at REI. Originally from Colorado, Will now enjoys getting lost in the PNW rain forest...
Tawanah Reeves-Ligon

Tawanah Reeves-Ligon

Tawanah Reeves-Ligon is an author, poet and editor who loves all things water, especially watersports and mermaids. She is the REI Southeast Editor as well as t...
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Ever Meister

Ever Meister (they/she) oversees Hike and Impact content for REI Co-op. Outside, they can be found inspecting lichen, whipping out their binoculars to look for ...
Jenny Barber

Jenny Barber

Jenny Barber leads the podcast program at REI. Outside of the studio you can find her creating something yummy (and usually sweet) in the kitchen or embarking o...
Jacki Harp

Jacki Harp

Jacki Harp is the Regional Director for the Southeast and the co-chair for the BIPOC Inclusion Network....
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Katherine Cusumano

Katherine Cusumano is a culture writer and scuba enthusiast whose work focuses on gender, obsessions and how people relate to their environments. Her writing ha...
Megan Burbank

Megan Burbank

Megan Burbank is a writer and editor based in Seattle. She has worked as an editor and reporter at the Portland Mercury and The Seattle Times, and specializes i...
Kahlea Williams

Kahlea Williams

Kahlea Williams (she/her) is Seattle-based but born and raised in the midwest, where she developed an appreciation for agriculture and sustainable food systems....
Miles W. Griffis

Miles W. Griffis

Miles W. Griffis is a journalist and writer based in southern California. He is a co-founder of The Sick Times and a columnist at High Country News. REI Co-op M...
Valerie Moloney

Valerie Moloney

Chicagoan Valerie Moloney has worn many hats in her 20+ years as a professional: beat reporter; digital manager; social strategist; restaurant critic; even obit...