Alexa Schirtzinger

Alexa Schirtzinger spent her young adulthood exploring organic farming methods in El Salvador with the Peace Corps, traipsing around South and Central America, rafting rivers from Africa to Utah, and exploring the ski slopes of New Mexico. Her love of wild places dates back to an unlikely childhood among the coyotes and condors of Los Angeles' pine-covered hills. She recently earned a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.