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CWA Adds Event Coordinator

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The CWA welcomed Maddie Hodge as its new Event Coordinator, profiling a background rooted in the outdoor industry that positions her well for building the organization's events. Maddie has spent much of her professional experience in the outdoor world, working in events, marketing, backcountry guiding, and outdoor education. Across those roles she gained experience working with people from around the world, practicing experiential education, and creating spaces where anyone can be part of something they're interested in, especially outdoors, exactly the inclusive, experience-focused sensibility that serves event planning. Her range is vivid, from swinging off big walls in Yosemite to boots-on-the-ground event planning, and she's ready to grow within the indoor climbing industry with the CWA. She's excited to combine her professional and personal experiences to plan events for the whole CWA community and to channel her passion for climbing into building the annual CWA Summit as well as education and certification events. The article traces her path: while she grew up playing outside every hour she could, she fell in love with both indoor and outdoor climbing during college at Western Colorado University, where she landed her first guiding job in Yosemite National Park. Originally from Edinboro, Pennsylvania, her passions for climbing, trail running, and backcountry skiing have given her perspective on the world and the people who push their limits in the mountains. Her experience ranges from writing about people in the outdoor industry who make a difference to collaborating on and planning events of significant scale. The throughline is that Maddie brings a blend of outdoor-industry event expertise, experiential education values, and genuine climbing passion to coordinating the CWA's flagship gatherings. Her hire reflects the CWA's investment in delivering high-quality Summit and certification events led by someone who understands both large-scale event logistics and the community those events serve.

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The CWA welcomed Maddie Hodge as Event Coordinator. With an outdoor-industry background spanning events, marketing, backcountry guiding, and outdoor education, plus her own climbing passion sparked at Western Colorado University and a first guiding job in Yosemite, she'll help build the annual CWA Summit and education and certification events.