Rachel Grimsley is an avid adventurer, a seeker of thrills and spectacular views. Traveling the world as a dance performer, she utilizes props with lights and fire to inspire wonder in her audience. As a seasoned journalist for the multifaceted industry that is modern medicine, paired with an interdisciplinary education in sciences and advocacy for physical and mental health, her writing is majorly influenced by anthropogenic interactions with nature. You can find her strung up in a hammock in the canopy of the great Pacific Northwest’s lush rainforests, hiking 500 miles across Europe with two hula hoops strapped to her back or floating on a surfboard off the coast of Hawaii, stringing together experiences as pieces of the larger story that is life on this captivating planet.