Authors & Presenters



posted Jan 9, 2023

Liz Schmit

Liz Schmit (she/her) is the Community and Outreach Program Manager for the Continental Divide Trail Coalition. Liz grew up in the Chicago-area and received her Bachelor’s degree from George Washington University. Her time in Washington, DC pivoted he...


posted Dec 12, 2022

Amanda Grace Santos

Amanda Grace Santos lives in Santa Fe, NM on Ancestral Tiwa land working as a Resource Assistant with the US Forest Service. She earned her Masters in Archaeology from Boston University, where she specialized in landscape archaeology and cultural her...


posted Dec 5, 2022

Marcus Neff

Marcus Neff is a Project Manager at Outdooractive, meaning that he is the person literally building the websites and apps that serve to display a region’s trails in an interactive manner and connect them to a tourism network. Marcus is a data nerd an...


posted Dec 5, 2022

Johannes Meir

Johannes Meir is an Outdooractive Project Manager (specifically for cartography & Trail Management). As a geographer and cartographer, Johannes works to depict the world around us as accurately as possible. Outdooractive seeks to map the world of...


posted Dec 5, 2022

Charlie Cohn

Charlie Cohn is working to bring the Outdooractive tools and technology covered in this webinar to more US destinations and trail managers. Charlie is from Telluride, CO and now lives in southern Germany close to the Outdooractive headquarters in the...


posted Nov 23, 2022

Renee Patrick

Renee Patrick is a long-distance backpacker with over 20 year’s thru-hiking experience on many of the long trails in the country, including the Triple Crown Trails. She has been working to develop the 750-mile Oregon Desert Trail since 2015 and volun...


posted Nov 7, 2022

Lauren Lemons

Lauren is the Marketing and Public Engagement Specialist at Five Rivers MetroParks in Dayton, OH, also known as the Outdoor Adventure Capital of the Midwest. A conservation agency, MetroParks is home to 18 parks, more than 75 miles of natural surface...


posted Oct 11, 2022

Sally Sharrow

Sally Sharrow is a Project Planner at Toole Design’ Columbus, Ohio office, where she has partnered with numerous communities on bicycle and pedestrian planning from the corridor all the way to the state level. She has worked with both Ohio and Minnes...


posted Oct 11, 2022

Bill Sellin

Since 2016, Bill Sellin, a retired City of Irvine employee and longtime Adventure Cycling member, has worked to gain local support for USBR 66 (2016 to 2020), and USBR 95 (2016 to current). His work experience and the free time to volunteer put him i...


posted Oct 11, 2022

Kerry Irons

Kerry Irons has been a volunteer with the Adventure Cycling Association, working on a diverse array of projects since 2004. He has volunteered over 12,000 hours working on the U.S. Bicycle Route System, Pedal Pioneers children's project, Amtrak Task ...