Kelly Ault
Executive Director, Vermont Outdoor Business Alliance
The Basics
Company Name: Vermont Outdoor Business Alliance
Location: Vermont
Founded: 2018
Full-Time Employees: 1 PT
Products: Education about outdoor recreation and business development services to outdoor businesses and organizations in Vermont
Social: Website // Facebook
Claim to Fame: The first-ever Vermont Outdoor Recreation Economy Summit in 2019, involving 115 outdoor stakeholders
The Culture
The best thing about working at the Vermont Outdoor Business Alliance is:
bringing together industry voices that are committed to healthy communities and equitable access to work places and outdoor places
When we’re not working, we’re:
Outside
What we’re reading:
Black Faces, White Spaces by Dr. Carolyn Finney
What we’re listening to:
Many industry webinars and workshops on diversity, equity, and inclusion
If they made a movie about our workplace, it would be called:
Basecamp for Vermont’s Outdoor Sector
Inclusion in the outdoors matters because:
The outdoors provides spaces for physical and mental health as well as opportunities for employment in outdoor businesses and organizations, leading to economic security and community vitality. Access by all people – especially those who have been marginalized and under-repreesnted in the outdoors – is necessary for a prosperous future.
Five years down the line, it’s our hope that:
The potential for outdoor participation is realized by all ways of physical movement, without barriers, by people of all income levels, racial and ethnic backgrounds, sexual orientations, ages, and physical abilities, linking to positive public health outcomes and physical and skilled achievement, supporting social and cultural connections, leading to education that fosters life-long, responsible recreation experiences and passion for the outdoors and ensuring employment in a thriving economic system of valued companies and organizations.