FitWild Editorial Team

Anthony Rodale

Anthony Rodale is a life long photographer, endurance athlete, and international sustainability advocate. He founded www.FitWild.com to bring all of his environmental, artistic, and sport passions together. Committed to social and environmental change projects, Anthony has severed on many non-profit boards. Currently, Anthony is the Chair of the Board for the Sustainable Food Trust. Instagram @anthonyrodale

Gaël Couturier

At 43, Gaël has been racing ultra trails and Ironman triathlon all over the globe. 5-times Marathon Des Sables finisher, 4-times Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc finisher and 10 times Ironman finisher, he has also scored 3 masters degrees from ivy-league french unversities including La Sorbonne and Science Po Paris (cinéma, sports marketing, media management).

In 2008, he helped launch Runner’s World in France as the editor. He then moved to India in 2012 to pursue editorial adventures and he’s only recently back in the West, based in Paris, France, where he freelances in print and television. The Jungle Marathon in the Amazon and Ironman Nice are among his plans for this 2016 season. Follow him on Twitter and Instagram @GaelCouturier and @couturiergael.

Kirsten Kortebein

Kirsten is a photojournalist currently based in Berlin, Germany. Along with working for Fit Wild, she also contributes to Outside Magazine, Runner’s World Magazine, and iRunFar.com. She loves a good adventure, but never stops thinking of Michigan beer and the shores of the Great Lakes. (Instagram – @kirsten.m.kortebein ) and website http://www.kirstenkortebein.com

Lindsey Torgerson

Lindsey, FitWild ambassador, is a previous collegiate basketball player gone elite endurance athlete.  She loves her coffee dark, is driven by the unequivocal spirit of hustle, and is a sucker for endless adventures.  In the past 4 years she has competed on multiple world platforms traveling the globe for Team USA Duathlon. In 2012 she earned a world silver medal in the Switzerland Long Course Duathlon World Championships, a world bronze medal in the 2013 Ottawa Duathlon World Championships, is a 2x National Champion, and also earned All-American honors in her 2015 race season. Along with preparing for her own competitions, she spends her free time blogging/writing about all things running, cycling, and fitness while training aspiring athletes at Elev8 Performance Lab in Laredo, Texas.

Instagram (@lindsey.torgerson)

Benedict Evans

Benedict Evans is an editorial photographer born in England and based in Brooklyn. His work appears regularly in the likes of New York MagazineEsquireESPN The Magazine, Out, and Wired. His work consists of both portraiture and stylized reportage work, and reflects his interest in the figures shaping contemporary culture, and his passion for geopolitical issues.

Instagram – @benedict_evans

Beth Strickland

Beth Strickland began cycling in the early ’80s as a means of transportation and fully immersed herself in the sport as an editor at Bicycling magazine. She rides 5-6 days a week, nearly 10,000 miles a year, in 100-degree humidity and in single-digit temps; normally with a good lunch crew and fast weekend rides with racer-types. When not riding, Beth is usually reading, baking, gardening or spending time with her teenage daughter. She loves to travel—with bike when possible–and could live happily with only cheese, wine, bread, chocolate…and a bicycle.

Instagram – @bikebeth

Sanjay Rawal

Sanjay Rawal is a documentary director and runner. He’s currently working on a film on ultradistance running that will manage to combine narratives of the Navajo, Bushmen and Marathon Monks with the 2016 edition of the 3,100 Mile Race. His most recent film was Food Chains, an exposé on farmworker exploitation produced by Eva Longoria and Eric Schlosser.

You can find him on instagram at @mrsanjayr.

Marty Desilets

Marty Desilets is a digital strategist // photographer currently living and working in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Marty embraces the latest digital technology and is always seeking new ways to capture and share his adventures with the world. His work has been professionally featured in web, print, broadcast and popular cultural media worldwide.

Instagram – @martyfm

Web – marty.fm

SARAH FRETWELL

Multimedia storyteller Sarah Fretwell looks deeper into the intersection of the environment, people, and business with one question: “What if the new bottom line was love? Her award-winning work explores the lives of everyday people with extraordinary stories and creates the human connection that engages people on a personal level. Her work offers individuals a voice for justice, insight for solutions, and the human connection needed for international engagement. Some of her notable work and clients include the United Nations, USAID, The Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation, and Tara Expeditions Foundation.

She loves collaboration, working as a team, creating compelling stories, and living outside of the box. Some of her favorite past times include sipping on farmers market green juice, spiking her espresso with superfoods, surfing in Papua New Guinea, hitchhiking through remote jungles of Indonesia, biking Gibralter peak in Santa Barbara, visiting with Syrian Refugee families in Southern Turkey, and road tripping through Banff Canada.

http://www.sarahfretwell.com

Yi-Hwa BAYAR HANNA

Yi-Hwa is a multimedia journalist currently based in Dubai. Born in the USA with Taiwanese, Lebanese, Iraqi, and Armenian heritage (possibly more) before growing up in the UAE, she’s had an innate love for travel for as long as she can remember. To her, home isn’t a place – it’s within people and the way they make you feel. When asked “Why”, she prefers to ask herself, “Why not”, and believes everything in life can be an adventure if you just know how to find it. She graduated from Tufts University in 2006, and her work has been featured in Women’s Health – in 2014 she was the launch editor for the Middle East edition of Women’s Health magazine, where she was Editor-in-Chief for four years – as well as Good Housekeeping Middle East, VIVA Magazine, Men’s Health Middle East, Grazia Middle East, Harper’s Bazaar Arabia, Cosmopolitan Middle East, Gourmet Magazine, and Etihad Inflight magazine, to name a few. Her career has involved everything from an internship at Yelp.com to a regular slot on a talk radio show, and Fighting Fit Dubai, a GCC reality TV show that saw her step into the ring for some amateur boxing matches. When the gloves are off, she loves to SUP and surf, do yoga, and just be active (she’s a qualified PT) – and when she’s not writing, travelling, or doing sports, she loves to spend time with her cat (Monsieur Baguette), cook, read, sketch, and paint. She’s currently trying to finish her first novel (and a screenplay) and dreams of someday making documentary films.

Instagram: @yihwahanna

Website: www.yihwahanna.com