Shawnté Salabert
Author, Writer, Outdoor Educator Navigation and Outdoor Skills Instructor
Shawnté Salabert is a Los Angeles-based freelance writer interested in the connections between humans and the natural world. Her work has appeared in Adventure Journal, AFAR, Alpinist, Backpacker, The California Sunday Magazine, Los Angeles Magazine, Modern Hiker, Outside, REI Co-op Journal, SIERRA, and SNEWS, among other outlets. She is the author of Hiking The Pacific Crest Trail: Southern California (Mountaineers Books, 2017).
In addition to writing about the outdoors, Shawnté serves as an ambassador for the American Hiking Society, and volunteers as a trip leader and Wilderness Travel Course instructor with the Sierra Club. She is also on the Sierra Club’s Our Wild America national leadership team.