My specializations:
Guiding
I grew up on the river, proficient in backcountry skills and have six seasons of commercial multiday guiding experience with Winding Waters River Expeditions. Guiding is my bread and butter and facilitating safe, immersive, and empowering outdoor experiences is what keeps me coming back to this work. In my personal life, I love to engage with Land via foot, flipper, bicycle or motorcycle, kayak, and most recently paraglider. I especially enjoy sustained, multiday expeditions, and love to introduce others to that medium of interacting with the world. International guiding is on the table too— I am particularly experienced in Latin America but can help you better connect with land/community wherever you’re headed. WFR (Wilderness First Responder) and ACA Swiftwater Rescue certified.
Shown here with guests Paul, Janie, and Ken in Hells Canyon.
Photo credit Kendrick Moholt
Multimedia Storytelling
I’ve always loved building stories and am an accomplished writer. I’ve engaged in narrative and policy writing and can cobble together a pretty mean grant application. I’m also proficient in Adobe Suite and a trained cartographer. I’ve recently delved deeper into digital storytelling (photo/video/audio work) in service to the work we’re doing with Pandion, most recently producing a short film on Saqáanma School, our annual collaborative program with Nez Perce Wallowa Homeland. I am currently co-producing hitoláayca, a 26-minute film on Nez Perce Tribal member Devin Reuben’s path towards becoming the first river guide of his generation.
Shown here with my friend, colleague, and elder Josiah on his family land on the Nez Perce Indian Reservation
Photo credit Tiyana Blackeagle
Teaching
I have years of formal education experience, centered around my time in an eighth-grade classroom in Boston while serving as an Americorps Member with City Year. Comfortable and effective working with Black and Brown students and non-anglo cultural backgrounds. Although I’m no longer in the classroom, I bring my perspective and praxis to my outdoor youth work.
Shown here working on kayaking technique with Isqots on the Selway River (Nez Perce Territory) during a Rios to Rivers youth exchange.
Video credit Paul Robert Wolf Wilson
Facilitation
I love tying folks in my life together in reciprocal webs of relations, and have recently been working to build geographically and culturally dispersed, like-minded community around shared values. My preferred medium of facilitation is action and project-based.
Shown here speaking at a City Year event.
Photo credit Elliot Haney
Project + Organizational Development
I’ve stewarded projects from inception to execution; I’m particularly proud of my work through Pandion with Nez Perce Wallowa Homeland on Saqáanma School, a 5-day, Native-led cultural and environmental education program for Nez Perce and Cayuse youth in ancestral territory in saqáanma (Hells Canyon) via whitewater raft. Working with the Homeland Project, I gestated this work from its preliminary grant writing to dipping oars in the water, and have helped sustain it as an annual program.
Shown here in saqáanpa with participants, educators, and fellow guides.