Contributors

Cedar Wright

Professional Climber/Filmmaker

Cedar Wright is a Professional Climber and Filmmaker living in Boulder Colorado. As a member of The North Face Team, Cedar has traveled the world establishing adventurous and daring first... Read more

Rebekah Wright

Writer/Surfer

Rebekah Wright is a graduate with a B.S. in Environmental Science and currently works as a Water Quality Engineer in the Southern California area. She finds most of her time... Read more

Shuang-Ye Wu

Professor of Geology and Environmental Geosciences, University of Dayton

Dr. Wu received her Ph.D. from Cambridge University in 2000 where she studied environmental geography. She joined UD's Department of Geology and Environmental Geosciences in 2004 after completing three-year post-doctoral... Read more

Matt Wyatt

Photographer

Matt began photography incidentally in December of 2013. Since then, he eats, sleeps and drinks photography. He lies awake at night thinking about shots that he wants to take. According... Read more

Kathy Xu

Founder, The Dorsal Effect

Kathy is the founder of The Dorsal Effect. Having been a school teacher for seven years and constantly advocating for her students to do good throughout her teaching career, Kathy... Read more

Nitin Yadav

Nitin Yadav is a marketing analyst of Frugaa.com, specializing in market research and analyzing and interpreting data to identify patterns and solutions. But in his downtime he is an amateur... Read more

Crystal Yang

Writer/Surfer

Crystal grew up in Manhattan Beach, Calif. and regularly surfs the ever-changing break of El Porto as well as the perfect jetties off of Newport Beach. Immersed in several years... Read more

Sam Yang

Sam Yang loves cars and surfing. As the owner of a California-based apparel manufacturing collective plus a collection of unique automobiles, Sam connects his passions as much as possible. Read more

Jinna Yang

Photographer, Filmmaker

It's been three years since I quit my corporate job in New York City to pursue photography full time. What started as a late-night, weekend hobby turned into my everyday... Read more

Sarah Yani Vann-Sander

Surfer/Scientist/Systems Thinker/Community Organizer/Social Entrepreneur

Sarah is a West Australian based surfer, scientist, systems thinker, community organizer and social entrepreneur. She has an interdisciplinary background, spanning law, politics, economics, psychology, medical science, environmental, marine and... Read more

Asfand Yar

Iki Yasuo

Artist

Iki is an artist inspired by surfing and the natural world around him. He is passionate about nature's shapes and textures. His modern graffiti and detailed style reflects his deep... Read more

Lauren Ybarra Ditonto

Surfer/Writer

San Diego's Lauren Ybarra Ditonto earned a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of San Diego, and studied abroad at Saint Clare’s, Oxford where she cultivated her passion... Read more

Zach Yeamans

Photographer

I have always shot a little bit of everything, but my love is shooting in and around the water. I'm always happy to get a surfer in front of my... Read more

Richard Yelland

Director/Filmmaker

Richard Yelland is a filmmaker who explores the extremes of action sports and human storytelling. Powerful visuals and great performances are a trademark of his directorial work on projects for... Read more