Chris Winter
Executive Director, The Access Fund
The Basics
Company Name: The Access Fund
Location: HQ in Boulder, CO with staff distributed across the country
Founded: 1991
Full-Time Employees: 26 + additional part-time and contractors
Products: We rally climbers to protect America’s climbing
Social: Instagram // Facebook // Twitter
Claim to Fame: Suing the Trump Administration to defend Bears Ears National Monument.
The Culture
The best thing about working at access fund is:
Working with a talented and professional team of amazing human beings to execute on a mission that inspires passion and commitment in our community.
When we’re not working, we’re:
Climbing! And doing other fun stuff outside.
What we’re reading:
Overstory, The Big Burn, Between the World and Me, Erosion and a bunch of climbing media
What we’re listening to:
A steady stream of eclectic music, loved the Flash Foxy interview with Abby Dione, the AMGA webinar on DEI in the outdoor industry, the Enormocast, Climbing Wall Association weekly update webinars
If they made a movie about our workplace, it would be called:
Dirtbags in DC
Inclusion in the outdoors matters because:
We believe that all people should feel welcomed, respected, and able to fully engage in climbing and outdoor recreation without regard to their identities. We envision a community in which all people feel that they have an important part to play in conservation and stewardship of our natural spaces, whether that’s an urban crag or a backcountry wilderness landscape.
Five years down the line, it’s our hope that:
We believe that all people should feel welcomed, respected, and able to fully engage in climbing and outdoor recreation without regard to their identities. We envision a community in which all people feel that they have an important part to play in conservation and stewardship of our natural spaces, whether that’s an urban crag or a backcountry wilderness landscape.