In celebration of Women’s History Month and National Reading Month, we are honored to share about Adrianna Serrano, a Dos Palos High School student who excels in reading, writing, and music. Adrianna is a participant in ARC’s Rising Community Leaders Program and she graduated from our first Stepping Stone Course in the summer of 2023. […]
2023 Year In Review
Dear ARC Community,As we make our way through winter and into spring, we want to take a moment to reflect on all we accomplished in 2023 and express our deepest gratitude to you for your generosity and support. Your belief in our mission helped us have a successful 2023, and we are so happy to […]
Welcoming Cristina Cruz Navarro as Co-Director of ARC!
Greetings, ARC Community, We are thrilled to announce that Cristina Cruz Navarro has joined ARC’s leadership team as a Co-Director. With a background in outdoor education, community engagement, grant-making and administration, and with a demonstrated ability to foster leadership in teams, Cristina brings a wealth of experience to this pivotal role. The ARC Board of […]
Words of Encouragement from ARC Alum for the New Year
Azteca Valdivia, a freshman at the University of Nevada, Reno and a graduate of the 2022 ARC Summer Course in Tahoe, is on a journey to succeed. While a senior at Sierra High in Truckee last year, Azteca applied for every scholarship she could find to ensure that she would be able to go to […]
See You Later: Navigating the Next Chapter with Our Incredible Board Member
This month we want to honor one of Adventure Risk Challenge’s founding Board members. Kasey McJunkin has been a member of ARC’s Board of Directors for a combined 7 years since ARC became an independent 501c3. Kasey was the first Board Chair of ARC, and thus played an extremely important role in mentoring Sarah Ottley […]
ARC Alum Becomes A Cowboy Conservationist
Charly Mijares spent a lot of his childhood in the outdoors, but it wasn’t the glaciated peaks of Yosemite’s high country that were his first stomping grounds. From the time he was ten years old, he remembers, he would help his father weed out pomegranate orchards, train horses, and build irrigation ditches. He says, “In […]