Katie Calciano

Katie was raised in Santa Cruz, California, with the ocean as her playground and the mountains always calling. She grew up surfing, playing every sport she could, and sharing a close bond with her large family. Her favorite subjects in school were Spanish and math—interests that took her to live in Mexico and Spain before she went on to study mathematics at UCLA. During college, she worked as a lifeguard and spent summers in a national park, wearing many hats at a family camp—as a mountain biking and sailing instructor, ropes course leader, and director of a teen leadership program. More recently, becoming an EMT opened up a whole new passion for emergency medicine. She now works as an EMT in California, and volunteers at concerts whenever she can, while winters are for ski patrolling in Lake Tahoe. When she’s not on skis or a bike, you’ll find her climbing, backpacking, or diving into a new skill—most recently unicycling and ski-cycling. She’s happiest outdoors, always up for a challenge, and loves sharing her passion for biking and adventures with others.