Every time I go climbing, hiking, biking, or camping, I always get asked the same plethora of questions: “Why do you do this?”, “How do you build the courage?”, “What is your goal in doing these activities?”, “When did you even start doing these things?”, and the list goes on and on. But, my answer every time is quite simple. “I aspire to be the example that I never had. My goal is to break the false narrative that the outdoors is only for one specific subgroup of people. My goal is to create belonging within diversity, and I go for the representation.