The
Riders
Brooke Larsen
Brooke Larsen is a writer and climate organizer based in Salt Lake City, Utah. She likes to ride her bike and has repeatedly found herself on long bike tours in less than ideal conditions, making her friends begin to wonder if she's a closeted masochist. In the summer of 2017, she embarked on her first long bike tour: 1,500 miles around the Colorado Plateau, the high desert of the American Southwest. Most days were over 100 degrees. In the summer of 2018, she ventured to Alaska as a co-recipient of the Lael Rides Alaska Scholarship, ending in the freezing, pouring rain of the Arctic tundra. Brooke also has a passion for story and tries to bring storytelling, bikes, and climate change together through various creative projects. She organizes with Uplift and is the winner of the 2017 High Country News Bell Prize for her essay "What are we fighting for?"
Kailey Kornhauser
Kailey Kornhauser is a PhD student in Forest Ecosystems and Society at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon. When she isn't pursing her career as a lifelong student she likes to ride her bicycle slowly over long distances. Kailey cares about things like climate change because she is a human that lives on this planet, and body positivity because she is a human with a body. As an aspiring David Sedaris, she attempts to write about the experiences of being a human with a body on a bicycle in a way that makes you think to yourself "Oh, is she trying to be funny?" This past summer, Kailey rode across Alaska having been the co-recipient of the Lael Rides Alaska Scholarship.
