American Alpine Club

The American Alpine Club (AAC) is a non-profit member organization with more than 24,000 members. Its vision is to create a united community of competent climbers and healthy climbing landscapes.

Through its members, the AAC advocates for American climbers domestically and around the world; provides grants and volunteer opportunities to protect and conserve climbing areas; hosts local and national climbing festivals and events; cares for the nation's leading climbing library and mountaineering museum; manages the Hueco Rock Ranch, New River Gorge Campground, and Grand Teton Climbers' Ranch as part of a larger lodging network for climbers; and annually gives about $100,000 toward climbing, conservation, and research grants that fund adventurers who travel the world. It also maintains regional sections—with both regional staff and volunteers—throughout the United States.

I volunteered for the Seattle Chapter of the American Alpine Club from 2018 to 2020, coordinating social media posts and engaging with our audience, designing email newsletters, creating collateral for local and regional climbing festivals and land stewardship events, and spreading the stoke.