Meet the Occifers


Emily Brownlow

Co-Prez (She/Her)

  • Favorite non-climbing activity: Anything involving water
  • Bev of choice: Milkshake
  • A climbing memory that feels significant: DWS in Malta in and around these insane sea caves
  • A small thing that makes me happy: when people laugh with strangers
  • Mystery link

Connie Zhang

Leader of the Free World (w/Emily) (She/Her)

  • Favorite non-climbing activity: snowboarding !
  • Bev of choice: matcha
  • A climbing memory that feels significant: climbing outside for the first time at red rocks, never been more scared in my life
  • A small thing that makes me happy: blackberry milkshakes
  • Mystery link

Sam Hendry

Co-Vice-Prez (He/Him)

  • Favorite non-climbing activity: reading out loud
  • Bev of choice: milk
  • A climbing memory that feels significant: a day trip to Yosemite planned the night before
  • A small thing that makes me happy: hot cereal
  • Mystery link

Grey Jensen

Whatever Sam said (He/Him)

  • Favorite non-climbing activity: Scrolling Facebook marketplace
  • Bev of choice: orange juice
  • A climbing memory that feels significant: my first trad whipper on a 0.2
  • A small thing that makes me happy: a pocket beer
  • Mystery link

Talia

Treasurer (She/Her)

  • Favorite non-climbing activity: Surfing
  • Bev of choice: boocha
  • A climbing memory that feels significant: I went to Squamish with my buddies this summer! It was a very beautiful and silly trip
  • A small thing that makes me happy: Awesome comfortable chair in my living room
  • Mystery link

Aviv Regev

Party Facilitator (He/Him)

  • Favorite non-climbing activity: Sitting still
  • Bev of choice: Modelo
  • A climbing memory that feels significant: Getting stuck at the top of a “solo” when I was ten and having a man with a broken ankle push me over the top.
  • A small thing that makes me happy: idk

Liza Barry

Stewardship (She/Her)

  • Favorite non-climbing activity: guitar and reading
  • Bev of choice: Peach yerb
  • A climbing memory that feels significant: In Sandrock Alabama when people were singing down in the canyon while the sun was setting and I was climbing
  • A small thing that makes me happy: Feeding the deer that live near my house
  • mystery link

Lili Rodriguez

Head of Stoke (She/Her)

  • Favorite non-climbing activity: high Sierra hiking
  • Bev of choice: KOMBUCHA (or choccy milk if I’m feeling dangerous)
  • A climbing memory that feels significant: Climbing the rock n jump walls 20 times in a row when i was 10. I got a taste of my future.
  • A small thing that makes me happy: when colors match in different parts of peoples outfits
  • mystery link

Nat

Stinky Comp Climber (He/Him)

  • Favorite non-climbing activity: Eating!!!
  • Bev of choice: Cappuccino
  • A climbing memory that feels significant: Trying midnight lightning whilst Conrad Anker spotted me
  • A small thing that makes me happy: The smell of jasmine at Indian rock a few weeks out of the year
  • mystery link

Connor

Membership Facilitator (He/Him)

  • Favorite non-climbing activity: Skiing/Snowboarding
  • Bev of choice: Coconut water
  • A climbing memory that feels significant: Trying sport climbing for the first time in Smith Rock
  • A small thing that makes me happy: Watching the sunset
  • mystery link

Amanda Mueller

Trips (She/Her)

  • Favorite non-climbing activity: Cold plunging and hot springing
  • Bev of choice: It’s not a drink but cucumbers are really crunchy and refreshing especially at the crag
  • A climbing memory that feels significant: My first time leading OW. One pitch took me two hours and my head got stuck.
  • A small thing that makes me happy: When people pick up trash at the crag
  • mystery link

Thom Steiner

Trip Sitter (He/They)

  • Favorite non-climbing activity: bike-packing
  • Bev of choice: grapefruit juice
  • A climbing memory that feels significant: FA Soloing ‘Fig Tree (pg-13)’ at ‘grandparent house’ at age 6
  • A small thing that makes me happy: Rollie pollies
  • mystery link

Milan

Clinics (He/Him)

  • Favorite non-climbing activity: frolicking
  • Bev of choice: water
  • A climbing memory that feels significant: my first bishop trip
  • A small thing that makes me happy: rocks
  • mystery link

Leela Mehta-Harwitz

officer of unearned expertise (They/Them)

  • Favorite non-climbing activity: running outside
  • Bev of choice: soy milk. #soyboy
  • A climbing memory that feels significant: my first v4, the first climb I seriously projected and probably attempted 30 times and only sent out of sheer grit
  • A small thing that makes me happy: making jam
  • mystery link