Natalie warren
A lifelong paddler and river lover, Natalie was one of the first two women to paddle over 2,000 miles from Minneapolis to Hudson Bay. From Miami, FL, Natalie’s first overnight camping experience was a two-week canoe trip through the Boundary Waters Canoe Area in Northern Minnesota through YMCA Camp Menogyn. At Menogyn, Natalie canoed for 30-days in Wabakimi Provincial Park in Ontario and 50-days on the Kazan and Kunwak Inuit Heritage Rivers in Nunavut, Canada through the arctic tundra. She has since canoed the length of the Mississippi River and won first place in the Yukon River Quest in the women’s voyageur division, paddling 444 miles in fifty-three hours. A contributing writer to outdoor publications, she has worked with Bancroft Arnesen Explore, St. Croix River Association, Friends of the Mississippi River, and Open Rivers: Rethinking Water, Place, and Community. Natalie got her PhD in communication studies at the University of Minnesota where she researched the human-nature relationship and wrote about how we come to know and care for places. She currently teaches science communication and water policy in the University of Minnesota’s Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy program. Natalie lives in Minneapolis with her husband, two kids, and dog and enjoys playing music with her husband under the band name QAWALA, growing more vegetables than she can eat, and paddling the Mississippi River during sunset. She is currently working on her next book about the Mississippi River.
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