We are thrilled to welcome Maylon Hanold to the SheJumps Board of Directors! Maylon brings an impressive background as a Teaching Professor at Seattle University, where she teaches leadership, diversity, inclusion, and human resources across MBA programs. With a passion for fostering inclusivity in both the classroom and the outdoors, Maylon has worked as a DEI consultant across various industries, including the ski and snowboard sectors. An avid outdoor enthusiast, Maylon’s journey began with a love for whitewater kayaking, even competing in the 1992 Olympics. She now enjoys snowboarding, trail running, mountain biking, and more. We look forward to her contributions in expanding accessibility and inclusivity within SheJumps' programs!
Maylon Hanold is currently a Teaching Professor at Seattle University, teaching courses in leadership, diversity and inclusion and human resources, across two MBA programs. Maylon served as Director of the sport management graduate program for 9 years, leading the re-imagination of the sport management program at Seattle University to become an MBA in Sport and Entertainment program in 2021. The program is the first of its kind to build on DEI and leadership as fundamental skills alongside business acumen. She established partnerships with all the major Seattle sports teams to facilitate the development of aspiring sport industry professionals. She also works as a DEI consultant, serving the tech, healthcare, and ski/snowboard industries. Maylon co-authored a working guide to creating equity in organizations, Equity in Action: A New Paradigm for Increasing Equity in Organizations. She looks forward to contributing to SheJumps DEI aims.
Maylon holds a B.A. in French from the University of Washington, masters in learning and teaching from Harvard University, a doctorate in educational leadership from Seattle University, and a Certificate in Diversity and Inclusion for HR from Cornell University. Maylon began her outdoor journey with a love of whitewater, which led to participating in whitewater kayak slalom in the 1992 Olympics. These days, she enjoys snowboarding, trail running, mountain biking, paddling, walking her dog and going to live music.
Q: Place of work, title, location.
A: Seattle University, Teaching Professor, Seattle, WA
Q: Why did you join SheJumps as a board member?
A: I believe experiences in the outdoors can be transformational, but more importantly I believe that how you go into the outdoors and who you go with makes all the difference. SheJumps provides the supportive outdoor experience that helps shape how young girls and women can show up in the outdoors, transforming both themselves and what it means to be in the outdoors in powerful ways.
Q: What goal of the SheJumps Strategic Plan is the most important to you?
A: Goal 2- expanding accessibility and inclusivity of SheJumps programs, offerings and community for girls and women of all backgrounds. And Goal 3- include leadership and wellness as part of the curriculum and programming.
Q: What do you hope to contribute to the SheJumps Board of Directors?
A: I hope to contribute to helping SheJumps live into and realize the expansion of accessibility and inclusivity, especially helping to establish progression-style programming as well as helping to establish/strengthen community alliances to bring SheJumps offerings to underrepresented women, women identified, non-binary individuals. I also hope to help with the leadership and wellness aspects of the programming. The world needs a very different kind of leadership, and these understandings need to begin early in a wide variety of ways.
Q: What is your vision for SheJumps?
A: To be an organization that people know, respect and want to support. To be the outdoor programming organization that makes a real difference in people’s lives, and helps add to and enrich the narrative about what it means to be in the outdoors.
Now, it’s time for the lightning round:
Q: Outdoor activity of choice (pick one, two if you must)?
A: mountain biking and snowboarding.
Q: Who inspires you to go outside and why?
A: It’s not really one person. Maybe it’s humanity as a whole, maybe it’s the students I teach. The fast-paced, complex overwhelm that daily life brings is like ‘living beyond human scale.’ But I’m inspired to go outside because I get to experience living with fewer choices, with fewer competing demands, and with a simplicity that is hard to get any other way for me.
Q: Where is your favorite place to go outside or on an adventure?
A: Any place when it’s with good friends.
Q: How has the outdoors benefited your health and overall physical, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing?
A: Being in the outdoors has always brought me joy, doubt, fun, fear, challenges, peace, unknowns, and a place to slow down. Getting to experience so many things in the outdoors has helped me develop the knowing that I am grounded in things bigger than me. For me, that translates to helping me re-center on things that I value and are important to me. There’s no better way for me to experience being in the moment, which always simply makes me feel good in the most basic and embodied way.
Thanks, Maylon!
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