Where do you live and what’s your day job? I live in North Bend, WA and work in Seattle at the Starbucks HQ as a Senior Coffee Quality Specialist. My job is coffee chemistry and sensory science: I taste and evaluate coffee to make sure it is meeting quality expectations! I am also a professional skier and spend a good part of the winter filming on snow and testing ski products.

Doughnuts or Bagels? Bagels! The perfect vessel for almond butter, peanut butter, or cream cheese and fresh berries.

Go-to Aprés Beverage: A fresh session-able pale ale or craft pilsner or lager, please!

What are 3 words your best friends would use to describe you? Passionate, confident, dialed.

Something not many people know or would expect about you? I don't measure any ingredient volumes when I bake or cook and just wing it...kinda the opposite of the precise science work that I do but I find it more fun. :)

Biggest “send it” moment—on the mountain or in life? Probably buying a house, switching careers from beer to coffee, and committing to becoming a professional skier all at the age of 30, then working on two film projects in consecutive seasons while getting married in between! My 30s have been real.

What do you do when you're not skiing/riding/biking? I'm probably doing volunteer work, making nice food at home and chilling with my husband, gardening, or wandering the forest in my backyard looking at flowers or picking berries.

How do you help build community in the outdoors? I created the Snowpack Scholarship Program through my non-profit volunteer work with SheJumps in an effort to help women afford avalanche education and better access to snow sports. Over the last 7 years, the program has supported women with 372 scholarships for AIARE avalanche certifications and 106 Ikon Passes with ski/snowboard lessons nationwide, with the majority of the scholarship going to women of color. I have also been volunteering with EDGE Outdoors to support running their Athlete Development Scholarship which is a freestyle skiing and riding scholarship for women of color to have access to freestyle park instruction at Mount Hood, OR and the Olympic water ramp jumping facility in Park City, Utah. I'm half-Vietnamese and was lucky enough to grow up with parents who prioritized skiing and training/competition for me and my brother when we were kids. I have always wanted to see more diverse populations feeling welcome in snow sports, even if their families traditionally have been unfamiliar with or lacking access to mountains and snow, which is why I've focused my volunteer time on helping this access and continued development to become easier.

Why Wild Rye? Cassie reached out to me early on after founding Wild Rye to see if I wanted to get involved representing the brand as an athlete and community member. I was interested in getting involved and she made me a part of the family. I've since traveled across states and internationally with Wild Rye, been a part of many product launches of beautiful and well thought out products, tested prototypes, attended events and races with Wild Rye teammates, and been a part of the conversation of what women need and how we can accomplish it. Wild Rye represents such a powerful community of women who are making moves to get more women outside and to be confident in themselves. 

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