Tara Vanselow is a Pacific Northwest native, and has lived on a small island in the Puget Sound for the last 24 years. She is obsessed with nature and the mountains, loves her family and finds endless humor and inspiration in the teenagers she works with. When Tara is not spending time with her family or working, she revels in the freedom and joy that she finds in the mountains. She believes women are capable of far more than they think they are.