{"id":4185,"date":"2017-08-28T08:38:10","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T14:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/?p=4185"},"modified":"2017-08-28T08:38:10","modified_gmt":"2017-08-28T14:38:10","slug":"womens-equality-the-outdoor-industry-can-be-a-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/womens-equality-the-outdoor-industry-can-be-a-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"WOMEN\u2019S EQUALITY: \u201cTHE OUTDOOR INDUSTRY CAN BE A LEADER\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Growing up in rural Nebraska, Deanne Buck never felt a division between the indoors and outdoors. \u201cWhen I think about my childhood, I was always outdoors. We were swimming at the lake. We\u2019d go for bike rides. In the winter, we\u2019d go ice skating,\u201d Buck said. \u201cThe outdoors was just part of who I was.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But it wasn\u2019t until a friend introduced her to climbing, at a YMCA in Omaha, Nebraska, 25 years ago, that she started to make life decisions based on her love of the outdoors. As her passion grew, it even informed where she went to law school\u2014the University of Colorado Boulder, naturally, because of its proximity to climbing.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years, she\u2019s worked as a river rafting guide and at a climbing gym. She\u2019s advocated for conservation and access to public lands during her time at the Access Fund and the American Alpine Club. Today, her goal is to achieve equality for all women in the outdoors, from the backcountry to the boardroom, as the Executive Director of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/camberoutdoors.org\/\">Camber Outdoors<\/a>\u00a0(formerly the Outdoor Industries Women\u2019s Coalition)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rei.com\/blog\/news\/womens-equality-the-outdoor-industry-can-be-a-leader?cm_mmc=sm_fb-_-force_of_nature-_-deanne_buck_qa-_-blog\">WOMEN\u2019S EQUALITY: \u201cTHE OUTDOOR INDUSTRY CAN BE A LEADER\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Growing up in rural Nebraska, Deanne Buck never felt a division between the indoors and outdoors. \u201cWhen I think about my childhood, I was always outdoors. We were swimming at the lake. We\u2019d go for bike rides. In the winter, we\u2019d go ice skating,\u201d Buck said. \u201cThe outdoors was just part of who I was.\u201d&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":846,"featured_media":4186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"WOMEN\u2019S EQUALITY: \u201cTHE OUTDOOR INDUSTRY CAN BE A LEADER\u201d","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[81,39,6],"tags":[538,532,1109,171],"class_list":["post-4185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diversity","category-environmental-science","category-outdoor-education","tag-leadership","tag-outdoor","tag-rei","tag-women"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/files\/2017\/08\/Deanne-Buck-1024x598.jpg?fit=1024%2C598&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p79l8e-15v","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/846"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4187,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4185\/revisions\/4187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}