OUTLIER: TRUST - Screening + Filmmaker Q&A

Overview

Please join AdventurUs Women, Between Evergreens, Crow’s Feet, and SheJumps, for the second annual Bend Women’s Speaker Series - “Empowering Women Through Adventure”, held monthly from October to March at Embark Coworking Community. This evening is a two-part event: In Part 1, we'll show OUTLIER: Trust. After showing OUTLIER: Trust, Dani Reyes-Acosta and Nina Aragon, two subjects of the OUTLIER Episode 2, "Common," will hold a fireside chat and Q&A with Bend community leaders, Veronica Vega and Daicy Soriano Davila from Vámonos Outside, an organization that works to advance an inclusive outdoor culture in Central Oregon by providing outdoor recreation opportunities for the Latine/x/o & BIPOC communities. The conversation will focus on cultivating women's mountain leadership, sharing ways to create healthy, safe, and open communication along the way. We'll take an intersectional approach to this conversation, inviting participants to internally reflect on how their individual path has informed the broader role they play in their community--and the path that lies ahead. When: Wednesday, February 21, 6:30-7:30pm (Doors open @ 6pm) Where: Embark Coworking Community - 2843 NW Lolo Drive, Bend Come ready to buy some raffle tickets and win sweet swag in support of SheJumps and AdventurUs Women scholarships! Entry is free and complimentary beverages will be provided by Crux Fermentation Project and Deschutes Brewery.

Guides & Trip Leaders

SPEAKERS & SPONSORS

Dani Reyes-Acosta

Award-winning advocate, filmmaker, athlete, and strategist Dani Reyes-Acosta tells stories of reciprocity in the outdoors—and invites us to roam the path of liberation, together. After leaving corporate life to find her way back to her roots, she ticked rock climbs and ski lines across North America on a circuitous path to self-actualization. Through words, visuals, and film, Dani's work with @AfueraProductions heals our relationship and fosters to self, land, y comunidad. Vamos!

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Nina Aragon

Nina aims to build just solutions to complex climate challenges through science, community-building, and advocacy. She is the Protect Our Winters Science Alliance Team Captain, a new mother, and a Candidate for her PhD in Water Resources Engineering.

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Daicy Soriano Davila

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Daicy is a student at Caldera High school and a second year participant in Vamonos Outside’s ski and snowboard program. She is a member of the Cultural Legacy club and the dual immersion program at school. She loves hiking, drawing, playing soccer and interacting with kids. She works as a camp counselor for Camp Chica, a bilingual adventure program for girls and volunteers with the non-profit Furnish Hope.

Veronica Vega

She/Her/Ella

Veronica is a first-generation Mexican-American, “inquieta”, a mother and lifelong naturalist. She studied biology at Humboldt State, and worked as a biological field technician in Oregon and Washington monitoring spotted owls, bull trout, and other threatened species.

From 2006-2022 she worked in craft beverage manufacturing where she learned product development, organizational leadership & project management. A few of her favorite things are bicycles, nordic skiing, snowboarding, jumping into cold water, singing at the top of her lungs, dancing her heart out, and sharing a home-cooked meal.

Her current path is working with youth in the outdoors and is passionate about inspiring them to see bilingualism as a superpower. She developed Camp Chica in the Summer 2022.

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ADVENTURUS WOMEN

AdventurUs Women is a women-owned and led company dedicated to providing opportunities for women of all ages, races, sizes, backgrounds and experience levels to learn new skills and try outdoor activities in beautiful environments. We strive to create affirming learning environments that encourage friendship and skill building while connecting with nature in stunning locales.

We provide affirming and supportive spaces for women to learn and explore in the outdoors.We create experiences that encourage fun, laughter and friendship.We welcome women of all ages, race, size, background, and experience levels.

We welcome participants of all gender identities and expressions who feel that a women’s retreat is the right space for them.We embrace nature as our classroom, leading with compassion.We share knowledge as a way to empower, inspire, and build confidence in outdoor skills.

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SHEJUMPS

SheJumps increases the participation of women and girls in outdoor activities

Partnering with nature, SheJumps creates safe, educational outdoor experiences for girls and women that nurture growth and transformation.

SheJumps is an inclusive organization. They welcome all women and girls (transgender and cisgender) as well as non-binary people who identify with the women’s community. SheJumps strives to be an ally in the fight against racism and acknowledges that our events and programs take place on traditional, unceded Indigenous lands.

Learn more at: https://www.shejumps.org

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CROW'S FEET
A Mountain Collective is an equipment sales/service/information hub, selling the best products available for both your backcountry ski and cycling excursions.

At CROW'S FEET, we make it our mission to look beyond conventional thought and practice, to bring quality and innovation together in a space that welcomes all people. We are inspired by the artists, bike makers, ski builders, crafts(wo)men, whose work manifests in the form of delicious beauty… and we seek to share that inspiration through unrelenting stoke, coffee, beer, bikes, skis and snowboards.

Learn more at: https://crowsfeetbend.com

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