ATHLETES, ADVOCATES AND ENVIRONMENTALISTS
Melanin Base Camp bloggers include backcountry hikers, rock climbers, skydivers, kayakers, environmentalists and all kinds of outdoor people. Keep scrolling to find out more!
Danielle is the founder of Melanin Base Camp & Diversify Outdoors as well as the co-founder of Team Blackstar Skydivers. The Army pushed her out of her first airplane in 2006 & she’s been in love with adventure sports ever since.
Favia is a southwest based climber and physician. She loves photography and bouldering with her crag dog, Hans. She’s also a cancer survivor who was diagnosed with advanced stage Lymphoma.
Emmeline Wang is a sport and trad climber living in Salt Lake City, UT with her partner of two years. She enjoys environmental activism, volunteering and the climbing lifestyle.
Nadia is an active climber, hiker and skydiver from North Carolina as well as a Cardiac nurse. She writes about social justice, public health and her intersectional identities as an Afro-Indigenous Latina.
Adam is an Oregon-based whitewater kayaker chasing the dream of traveling and paddling the most exciting Class IV and Class V runs across the United States.
Vanessa is an environmental sociologist whose writing illuminates systemic barriers that keep BIPOC out of outdoor spaces. She enjoys disrupting unhealthy outdoor norms and taking up space in the mountains.
Alexa is a cyclist, hiker, backpacker, travel guide, writer & advocate. She is one-eighth of The Black Foxes, an international collective of unapologetically Black cyclists who are reclaiming their narratives in the outdoors.
David is a Mexican-American writer living in Utah. He serves on the Salt Lake County Mountain Search & Rescue team and enjoys exploring the Wasatch Mountains on foot and bike with his family.
Eugene is a Korean-American dirt chasing cyclist, filmmaker and educator. You can find him on the road/bike with his dog, behind the lens or working in the backcountry.
Anaheed is a queer and non-binary writer, community organizer and co-founder of BelayALL, a climbing group with the goal of dismantling white supremacy & heteronormativity in the sport. Anaheed writes about social justice, diaspora and identity politics.
Caroline is an Asian American skier, skydiver and outdoor adventurer living in Salt Lake City, Utah. She splits her time between the outdoors and investigating what it could mean to create a more socially responsible, human-centered future of technology.
Amath Diouf is a Muslim, North Carolina based hiker from a globe-trotting Senegalese family. He enjoys hiking and camping in the Blue Ridge mountains and writing about outdoor access and diversity.