The age old question: how do you balance working hard to fulfill your mission and your personal need to spend time in the outdoors?
EVERUP.COM
CEO
Elizabeth Spiers is the CEO of Everup.com, a lifestyle design site that helps users be more productive, more creative, healthier and happier. Spiers is a serial entrepreneur and journalist who was previously the editor-in-chief of The New York Observer, the founder of Breaking Media (which publishes Dealbreaker, AboveTheLaw and Fashionista) and the founding editor of Gawker.com, Gawker Media's flagship site. She has also been a columnist at Fast Company and Fortune and is an advisor to several digital startups. She also teaches at New York's School of Visual Arts in the Design Research MFA program and is a YLF fellow with the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations.
POP UP YOGA NYC
FOUNDER & DIRECTOR
Founder of Pop Up Yoga NYC, which has actively redefined yoga for New Yorkers, Angelica combines creativity, community and deep industry knowledge to create incredible events. She has over 10 years of experience in the health and fitness space as well as public relations and is a writer for major national publications. Along with being a committed yogi, she swims, surfs, and hikes as much as possible.
THE NORTH FACE
PROFESSIONAL CLIMBER
Born and raised in Boulder, CO, Emily Harrington has been climbing for most of her life and boasts an impressive list of achievements to show for it.
She started as a member of the USA Junior Climbing Team in 1998 and continued on to become a member of the USA Climbing Adult Team (difficulty) from 2004 - 2010. In 2007, Emily became the second American female to climb 5.14b. Additionally, the same year she finished second at the Sport Climbing World Championships.
Despite her roots as a competition climber, Emily has explored several other aspects of the sport. Recently, she claimed the first female ascents of Roadside Prophet (5.14a), Living the Dream (5.14a), and Waka Flocka (5.14b) in Rifle, CO, and ascents of Powder Finger (5.14a) in the Getu Valley in China and Full Equip (5.14a) in Oliana, Spain. She won the women’s division at the Ouray Ice Festival in 2012 and in the same year was a member of the Everest Education Expedition, successfully summitting Mt. Everest on May 25, 2012.
While busy accumulating these athletic achievements, Emily also managed to graduate Magna Cum Laude from the University of Colorado with a Bachelor’s Degree in International Affairs in 2007. Her other achievements include serving as a USA Athlete Representative at the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Torino, Italy, and currently representing the Access Fund as a National Ambassador. She served as an Athlete Representative on the USA Climbing Board and is currently an athlete ambassador for Outdoor Nation and Protect Our Winters.
It is clear that Emily does not do anything half-way, whether it is school or donating her time or climbing. She clearly has a passion for every endeavor she undertakes – a passion well beyond her years.
For the latest updates on Emily, visit her website at www.emilyaharrington.com.