LA SPORTIVA • BOULDERING CLINIC

Ady is a returning Bronx native who started climbing 11 years ago indoors. In that time she’s competed, coached youth teams, written training plans for adults, route set commercially and for competitions, taught route setting clinics, and taught at outdoor festivals. She’s gained sponsorship from La Sportiva, Tension Climbing, The North Face, Gunks Apps, and Beta Labs. She’s a board member of New York City Climbing Collective and focuses her community work on diversifying the climbing industry. Her favorite styles of climbing are bouldering, slab, body positioning, and technique based.

PATAGONIA • TRAD CLIMBING CLINIC

Majka Burhardt has a passion for creating unusual connections. As a professional climber, social entrepreneur, author, mother of twins, and filmmaker, Majka has spent more than two decades leading multi-stage international ventures focused on current issues of cultural and environmental significance spanning Africa, Europe, South and North America. Majka is the Founder and Executive Director of Legado, an international organization that helps secure Thriving Futures for both people and the places they call home. Legado originated in 2011 during a pioneering climbing and conservation research expedition to Mozambique and is supported today by some of the world’s most influential social change funders and decision-makers. Majka is the author of More: Life on the Edge of Adventure and Motherhood, (Pegasus Books '23), a Next Big Idea Club Must Read, as well as of Coffee Story: Ethiopia and Vertical Ethiopia: Climbing Toward Possibility in the Horn of Africa and Executive Producer of films Namuli and Waypoint Namibia. Curious how to say her name? It’s “My-ka.”

SCARPA • TRAD SKILLS CLINIC

Nikki is an artist, writer, photographer, guidebook author, and climber based in Salt Lake City, Utah. She started climbing in the early ’90s and has been working in the outdoor industry and climbing world since 1998. Nikki’s photography is been featured in many outdoor publications and is a National Geographic Adventure photo contributor. She’s authored five climbing guidebooks to date and has written many feature articles for climbing magazines. She’s done more than 150 first ascents throughout the west and has traveled the world to climb. Nikki is also an athlete representing REI, Mountain Hardwear, Scarpa, Grivel, and more. Now, much of her work is focused on trying to build a more inclusive, diverse, and safe community within climbing and the outdoors. She is an advocate for the LGBTQIA+ community, and a Board Member for the Access Fund.

FLASH FOXY EDUCATION • TRAD CLIMBING CLINIC + TEA TALK: SASSY STEWARDSHIP

Marian May Perez has spent their career in the outdoor industry finding purpose in community and advocacy. Spending 15 years primarily working in the retail and education space, they are now the co-founder and Executive Director of Rise Outside, a non profit guide service outside of New Paltz, NY working towards normalizing diversity in the outdoors. They are an Arc’teryx New York ambassador and Flash Foxy alumni, holding space for other foxy folks to get stoked on climbing and community.

May loves traditional climbing and spending time in different climbing areas, working on breaking norms taking up space at the crag. Catch them throwing down on the dance floor, climbing topless on your favorite moderates, and having deep conversations about life and mental health.

ARC’TERYX • CRACK CLIMBING CLINIC

Vikki is a rock climber, ACMG apprentice rock guide, and registered nurse based out of Squamish, BC Canada. She started climbing at a young age, and has a strong background in competition climbing, with multiple youth and adult championships under her belt. She now finds joy outdoors on the rocks in a multitude of disciplines, including bouldering, sport climbing and trad climbing. She loves projecting just as much as a beautiful day moving joyfully on a long route. When not climbing, Vikki can be found chasing after her energetic baby girl and sneaking cuddles from her pup Tundra.

FLASH FOXY EDUCATION • TRAD CLIMBING CLINIC

Cindy Su is an avid rock climber and started climbing 10 years ago! She started climbing at the Boston Rock Gym with a Groupon voucher and got hooked immediately! Cindy saw that there was really a lack of opportunities for outdoor mentorship and guiding for Women, Femme Identifying folks, and Women of Color started getting involved with her community in a big way! She is a part of Brown Girls Climb, facilitating indoor meetups, an Arc'teryx Boston Ambassador creating BIPOC Affinity spaces with her sister Judy Su, Ladies Climbing Collective facilitator at CRG Stoneham, and an AMGA Single Pitch Instructor.

ADIDAS TERREX • CLIMBING CLINIC

Since 2011, Abby has been helping folks figure out how to get to the top of their climb. She is a USA Climbing Coach, and AMGA certified instructor who has taught various clinics at outdoor climbing festivals like Color The Crag and Flash Foxy. She sits on the Board of The Access Fund and has been asked to speak at events like Outdoor Retailer and the Outdoor Economy Conference. Abby has been interviewed by outdoor publications such as the Alpinist, Rock&Ice, and Outside Business Journal for the work that she does. She is a member of Team Full Circle, the first all Black team to attempt to summit Everest in 2022. With over fourteen years of experience, Abby has been a leader in the climbing industry by mixing her passion for the sport and her ability to build strong communities that crush.

FLASH FOXY EDUCATION • TRAD SKILLS CLINICS

ean Taft-Morales was born and raised in Washington, DC and has been climbing since age 12. They are the Director of Sportrock Climbing Guides, and have over 15 years of professional climbing instruction and guiding under their belt. They’re also an American Mountain Guides Association (AMGA) Rock Guide and an SPI Provider. Sean has been a key part of the AMGA Affinity programs and has taught or assessed all of the LGBTQIA+ Affinity SPI Programs. They also have also volunteered to travel to Afghanistan to teach Ascend: Leadership Through Athletics, a women's climbing group, an SPI instructor course. Together they set some of the first routes in the Panjshir Province.

FLASH FOXY EDUCATION • CRACK CLIMBING CLINIC

Janet Wilkinson prefers to live under open skies. After migrating east from Ohio to go to school at University of New Hampshire, she fell in love with the nearby White Mountains, where she discovered the joy of climbing movement clipping bolts at Rumney and bouldering at Pawtuckaway. She’s since made her home in Madison, New Hampshire, where Cathedral Ledge’s traditional climbing and the snow and ice of the Notches provide the playgrounds of choice. Janet occasionally wanders from the Granite State, too. Some of her favorite adventures over the years have been making a coveted ‘Nose In A Day’ ascent in Yosemite Valley, exploring her way up first ascents of mountains in India, and climbing new cliffs on the south coast of Newfoundland. While sharing climbing during all seasons as a professional guide for the last 19 years, Janet has also forged a ‘serious’ career as an organizational development consultant for nonprofits and grassroots collaboratives. Her favorite rest day activities are gardening and adventuring with her young family.

FRIENDS OF THE LEDGES • CLIMBER ETHICS PRESENTATION + TEA TALK: SASSY STEWARDSHIP

Molly is constantly finding new ways to combine her creativity and her love for the outdoors. She lives in Jackson, New Hampshire where she works as an artist, expressing and sharing her love of the natural landscape through her watercolor paintings. Currently she also works as a carpenter, and she has been known to wear a wide and varied array of different hats. While Molly loves exploring the landscape around her home through the lenses of painting and climbing, she also loves traveling and experiencing new landscapes and communities - almost always with a paint palette and paintbrush in hand. Molly is passionate about celebrating and expressing gratitude for specific places. Finding a way to care for the land that we all love to recreate on has always been extremely important to Molly. For many years she worked seasonally on trail crews, fixing and maintaining hiking trails in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and New York. Eventually her love for this place, and the strong sense of community here pulled her back to the White Mountains. Shortly after settling in North Conway, Molly dove headfirst into the world of climbing, and she was extremely excited when the opportunity came along to get involved with Friends of the Ledges, the local climbing organization in the North Conway region. She is currently a member of the FOTL board, and spends as much time as she is able organizing and leading cliff cleanups and stewardship projects. She finds that having the opportunity to protect, and care for the cliffs that bring us so much fulfillment and joy, is extremely gratifying. And sharing the experience of stewarding a place with others is especially amazing.

TRANS CLIMBERS BELONG WORKSHOP

Lyndon Cudlitz is an independent educator & consultant with over 20 years of experience in social justice facilitation and LGBTQIA services. Raised in Maine, Lyndon began climbing in 1996 and later served as a children’s instructor and gym co-manager. He is part of the leadership team of Crux, an NYC-based LGBTQ+ climbing org, and now coordinates its chapter in Albany, NY on unceded Mohican and Haudenosaunee land. Lyndon is a community weaver and organizer with projects that include co-founding Trans Climber Belong.

TRANS CLIMBERS BELONG WORKSHOP

Kristen is a northeast-based traddie who fell in love with climbing in the Adirondacks before moving to the Green Mountains where she currently resides in Burlington, Vermont on the unceded land of the Abenaki People. She is a coach, guide, climbing organization president, and community organizer who brings to her work a 20+ year history of LGBTQ+ education and organizing and 10 years of climbing advocacy. Kristen is a founding member of Trans Climbers Belong, an organization founded in response to USA Climbing's announcement of their harmful and restrictive Trans Athlete Participation Policy in September, 2023. TCB is a grassroots organization of trans climbers who worked to mobilize the national response in the climbing community which led to the pause of these policies and the creation of a new process for re-writing which includes trans athletes. She is honored and humbled to work with such an inspiring team of organizers and advocates, and for the opportunity to share the story of Trans Climbers Belong's work at this year's festival.

EVENING YOGA WORKSHOP

Lisa McCoy came to the mat after a car accident left her with whiplash and limited mobility. Practicing yoga opened a path for self-healing, and her practice translated into improved physical, mental, and spiritual health. She offers vinyasa based classes focused on alignment and internal awareness. Lisa is co-owner and operator of the International Mountain Climbing School and is thrilled to share her yoga practice with Flash Foxy participants.

SALSA ON2 DANCE WORKSHOP

Luca is is a queer, trans/gender non-conforming artist based in Queens, New York. Luca has a background in a variety of dance genres for over ten years. However, Salsa On2 is their favorite as it traces back to their Cuban roots with a flare of New York. Luca has a dream of seeing more queer and trans folks take up more space on the dance floor when Salsa plays. Part of making this dream come true is by teaching mini Salsa lessons with the queer and trans Salsa band, Las Mariquitas and by facilitating trans exclusive Salsa classes in the city.

ACCESS FUND • TEA TALK: SASSY STEWARDSHIP

is a Lebanese-American climber, environmental steward/educator, and non-profit programmer. She currently serves as the Access Fund Stewardship & Education Director, overseeing on the ground efforts to reduce impacts in climbing areas for sustainable, resilient, and thriving landscapes, and Board President of WeClimb, a mentorship program for BIPOC youth that uses climbing as a tool for growth. At her core, she is a femme forward trad zaddy with a passion for big adventures, and subsequently, even bigger lessons. Her ambitions have led her from "oh sh**" to "oh yasss" moments...and everything in between. During this time she has learned how to balance calculated risk with community investment and individual reward as well as the difference between courage and stupidity (sometimes). She currently resides on the homelands of the Cherokee in present day Chattanooga, TN, but can be found snooping around cracks and crags across the U.S.

GAMENT + GEAR GLOW UP STATION

Mollie is a recreational climber, sewist, maker, aerialist, and musician (and environmental professional) living along the Shawangunk Ridge in New York. She loves to imagine new ways to improve gear and clothing to better suit climbing needs and prides herself in giving new life (and style!) to well-loved gear and clothes. She gets a kick out of sharing these skills with others and building community through DIY mentoring.

CORPS THAT • TEA TALK: SASSY STEWARDSHIP

Sam is the seventh generation of a large, vibrant Deaf family of Maine's great woods. After obtaining a Master’s degree in Outdoor Leadership from Saybrook University and National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS), Sam joined CorpsTHAT’s team intending to build a bridge to connect the Deaf community and the outdoors through education, recreation, and careers. Sam is passionate about creating equitable and inclusive spaces in the outdoors for Deaf and hard-of-hearing folks, especially being in the field on and off for the past 12 years through different capacities. Four years ago, Sam assisted with founding the first-ever Deaf-centric conservation crew with CorpsTHAT. Currently, Sam manages field operations for the conservation and outdoor recreation programs with CorpsTHAT.

Sam is Wilderness First Responder certified, a Leave No Trace level 2 Instructor, A Level Sawyer Certified, holds a certification in Mental Health Wilderness First Aid, and is a Wilderness First Aid instructor with Base Medical. During Sam’s free time, Sam enjoys climbing, trail running, skiing, and backpacking.

AMGA Certified SPI, AMGA Apprentice Rock Guide, Wilderness First Responder

AMGA Certified SPI

AMGA Certified SPI, AMGA Apprentice Rock Guide, AMGA Apprentice Alpine Guide, WFR Certified

AMGA Certified SPI, Wilderness First Responder

AMGA Certified SPI, Wilderness First Responder

AMGA Certified SPI, Wilderness First Responder

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