Thoughtful conversations with the people of Maine

Originally Maine Women's Surf sort of began as the brainchild of one of our co-founders, Pamela Chavez, and her, along with our other co-founder Brit Dahlberg, sort of took this idea of an inclusive, Maine centered space for female surfers. And quickly realized that it sort of needed to span a demographic that is larger than Maine.

I was letting the water wash over it in the sand. And because the sun is so strong there, you would get an instant impression on the paper of that wave. So it was a real mark of time, and I was capturing nature in a way that I couldn't possibly do.

The adage that our zip code is a stronger determinant of our health status than our genetic code really made sense to me.