I’ve always been drawn to learning, the outdoors, community, and adventure. Being in nature—swimming in cold rivers, climbing trees, and wandering wild places—is not something I do, but something I belong to. Growing up in the Pacific Northwest, I moved through landscapes from sea to mountain peaks—places that shaped my love for the natural world and my understanding of connection, resilience, and belonging.

That early path led me into a life of guiding, teaching, and working with people in wild places and community settings across the United States. I taught outdoor skills such as whitewater rafting, rock climbing, camping, and backcountry travel, alongside communication and leadership—always focused on helping people discover their own strength, courage, and aliveness.

Along the way, I earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Adventure Education from Prescott College and a Master’s Degree in Teaching from the University of Washington. My education continued through experience—through relationship with land, with people, and with the realities of being human.

Life has also shaped my path in deeply personal ways through motherhood, marriage and divorce, relocation, trauma, illness, loss, grief, and transition. These experiences have deepened my capacity to be present with others in all seasons of life.

In 2019, during a wilderness retreat in the high desert of Oregon, I heard a clear calling to deepen my work as a guide through the School of Lost Borders. Soon after, I completed a five-day wilderness solo rite of passage—an experience that brought together everything I had lived and learned into an integrated way of being with people.