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.
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.
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.