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Outdoor Allies: Ángel Peña

Ever wondered how you can do more for public lands but you aren’t sure where to start? Outdoor Alliance’s Outdoor Allies series explores how other outdoor adventurers got their start in advocacy work and their advice for how you can harness your passion for the outdoors into advocacy for the land and water you love. A first generation American, Ángel is a proud father of three, an avid memory maker with his friends and family and President of the Nuestra Tierra Conservation Project.

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Outdoor Allies: Annie Nyborg

Ever wondered how you can do more for public lands but you aren’t sure where to start? Outdoor Alliance’s Outdoor Allies series explores how other outdoor adventurers got their start in advocacy work and their advice for how you can harness your passion for the outdoors into advocacy for the land and water you love. Annie Nyborg is Director of Sustainability for Peak Design and has been involved in advocacy work for about four years. She lives in Ojai, California.

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Outdoor Allies: Maria Povec

Ever wondered how you can do more for public lands but you aren’t sure where to start? Outdoor Alliance’s Outdoor Allies series explores how other outdoor adventurers got their start in advocacy work and their advice for how you can harness your passion for the outdoors into advocacy for the land and water you love. Maria Povec is a Mainer back in her natural habitat, and a long-time advocate diving into state government as a Senior Policy Analyst in the Maine Governor’s Policy and Planning Office, called the “Office of Innovation and the Future.”

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Outdoor Allies: Nathan Fey

Ever wondered how you can do more for public lands but you aren’t sure where to start? Outdoor Alliance’s Outdoor Allies series explores how other outdoor adventurers got their start in advocacy work and their advice for how you can harness your passion for the outdoors into advocacy for the land and water you love. Nathan Fey is the new Director of the Colorado Governor’s Office of Outdoor Recreation Industry. He has recently joined the Governor’s Office after being a guide and educator, and working in the non-profit sector on public lands management and water policy in the west.

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Outdoor Allies: Quinn Brett

Ever wondered how you can do more for public lands but you aren’t sure where to start? Outdoor Alliance’s Outdoor Allies series explores how other outdoor adventurers got their start in advocacy work and their advice for how you can harness your passion for the outdoors into advocacy for the land and water you love. Quinn Brett worked as a climbing ranger in Rocky Mountain National Park but was fortunate enough to play in many National Parks since her youth.  In October 2017, she took a 100-foot fall while climbing the Nose of El Capitan, resulting in paralysis below the waist.   

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