Q & A with Emily

Role:Summer 2011 Outdoor Recreation Intern
Nationality:USA
Where You Live:Columbus, GA Su
Star Sign:Cancer
Likes:karst geomorphology, the color green, Indian food, gardening, Boo (the Facebook dog), veggies, Star Wars, yard saling, Zombies, coffee and/or mango anything
Dislikes:needles, poison ivy, rudeness, licorice, apathy
Strengths:sense of humor, hardworking, and loves to encourage!
Weaknesses:not getting enough sleep, being too busy
Odd Thought:Photons have mass? I didn’t even know they were Catholic…
Most Anticipated Part of the Journey:
Favorite Creature:Jackalopes and Ewoks
Must Have Item to Take to Panama:Nutella

Personal & Professional

Background

Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed. Rescue the weak and needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked. –Psalm 82:3-4

Motto:

Go big or go home.

Biography - Emily Randall

If there are three things Emily is passionate about, they are backpacking, ice cream, and science. She is an earth and space science major with a concentration is Geology at Columbus State University in Columbus, Georgia. Upon graduating next December (provided the world doesn’t end), she would either like to go straight to law school to pursue environmental/international law or get her master’s in sustainable resource management. Exploitation of anything—land or people—is the thing that upsets her most, so Emily would like to make a career out of ensuring that it doesn’t take place. This community is what she has been dreaming of for a very long time! As an Outdoor Recreation intern, Emily hopes to use her extensive backpacking skills to help lay some “most excellent” trail and base camps. She’s been backpacking, kayaking, canoeing, rock climbing, and anything else possible outside since she was very young, and last year she spent over nine months in Africa working with children and adults who had HIV/AIDS. While there, Emily backpacked the whole of Southern and some of Central Africa, from South Africa to the border of the Congo and back down again. Currently, she is a rock climbing belay and instructor for her school. She is also a huge proponent of collecting random skills and experiences. Emily plays ukulele, slacklines (it’s like tight-roping, sort of), has been cage diving with great white sharks, stranded in a refugee camp, and most recently has taken up fire-breathing and power-kiting, the latter of the two being the infinitely harder task to master. If nothing else, Emily would eventually just love to see herself living in a tree house being a subsistence farmer somewhere beautiful doing something completely and totally rad.