Silvia Vasquez-Lavado

Silvia Vasquez-Lavado is a humanitarian, mountaineer, explorer, social entrepreneur, and technologist living in San Francisco. In 2014, she launched Courageous Girls, a nonprofit that helps survivors of sexual abuse and trafficking with opportunities to find inner strength and cultivate their voices by demonstrating their physical strength. Courageous Girls has had projects in Nepal, India, the United States, and Peru. She is a member of the Explorers Club and one of the few women in the world to complete the Seven Summits. Her debut memoir, In the Shadow of the Mountain, depicts her mountaineering journey as “intimately collaborative and feminist,” according to a starred Bookpage review.