Founder and Executive Director
I get the most joy from building community, and surfing has been such a wonderful way to authentically connect with so many different people around the world. Surfing is also such a potent source of health, in all senses of the word. Surfing is touted as being a "lifestyle" for a reason. Especially in a time when we are living somewhat distantly from how we evolved to live, it truly improves all facets of one's being—the physical, mental, and spiritual—by forcing you to tangle with nature in its most unbridled form. I can't even begin to express how much surfing has given me, and I want to share it with others in the kind of surf culture I wish I had grown up with.
If you ask anyone that knows me, they'll tell you how much I've always wanted to see more girls out in the lineup. Surfing is a heavily male-dominated sport, and my hope is to lower the barriers to entry for girls to fall in love with surfing, as I have, by creating an environment for us to feel free to take risks, to send it, to be messy, goofy, scrappy, and entirely ourselves. I founded Moonbeam to create this kind of environment for us learn and benefit from this life-changing sport.
