Brady Robinson
Brady Robinson is a climber and conservationist whose career has included over a decade at Outward Bound, 11 years running Access Fund, the national organization that keeps climbing areas open and conserved, and engaging with businesses to protect wild places for their habitat and recreation values as executive director of The Conservation Alliance. He has also worked on land conservation and rewilding projects in Chile and Argentina with Tompkins Conservation and Freyja Foundation, where he is currently the Director of Philanthropy.
Brady grew up in rural Minnesota, where childhood trips to the Boundary Waters Canoe Wilderness Area sparked a lifelong love of wilderness and the outdoors. Brady received a BA in philosophy at Macalester College in St. Paul and was both a student and later an instructor at the National Outdoor Leadership School. He was the founding board chairman of the Outdoor Alliance, and has served on a number of other nonprofit boards. Brady gave a TEDxBoulder talk on recreation and conservation which can be seen here. Brady is a passionate climber and alpinist, with many international expeditions and first ascents in the mountains of Patagonia and Pakistan.
Brady lives in Boulder, Colorado with his two children.