Mia Reyes is a graduate of the University of Washington with  a Communications degree and an English concentration. She is an avid music enthusiast, having interned and worked at various record label throughout her college career, as well as DJ’ing for her college radio station. While music has always been a love, she knew that her calling was in something much deeper than the music industry after being part of the staff for the inaugural year of the Victory Junction Gang Camp,  a Paul Newman Hole in the Wall camp serving children with chronic and life threatening illnesses where she worked for four years. Her desire to do find her ‘meaningful’ role in the world coupled with her passion for traveling and spirit for worldly adventures drew her to a Crooked Trails booth years ago. She stumbled upon the famous Edward Abbey quote, “May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome…” that Crooked trails is named after, and knew right then that the organization would be a deep part of her life. After college Mia worked at various non-profits in the Seattle area.

Mia has traveled and backpacked throughout the US and internationally to: China, Korea, Philippines, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam and studied sustainability for three months in southern India.  From her travels she has seen the beauty of the world and the importance of true cultural exchange, but also seen firsthand the pitfalls of tourism. She wholeheartedly believes in the Crooked Trails mission and knows what Crooked Trails encompasses and teaches is world altering.

She marks one of the defining and most inspiring moments of her life sitting in on the Dalai Lama’s teachings and participating in the March for Peace rally in Dharmasala, India.