Thoughtfully designed learning experiences.
Roam Wild is a Dallas-based organization that works to connect youth from diverse backgrounds in carefully designed outdoor adventure trips.
Each trip incorporates team-building, adventure sports (backpacking, rock climbing, rafting), lots of self-reflection, challenging preconceptions, and giving back to the community. Through exposure to multiple geographic settings, wilderness experiences, and community service, participants will learn valuable skills that will serve them for years to come.
What We Believe
All youth deserve the opportunity to experience wild places, and those opportunities should not be obstructed due to financial means.
Through meaningful, adventure-based experiences youth will connect across lines of difference to create powerful, lasting relationships.
Bonds that are created across lines of difference at an early age, at a pivotal time in a child’s life, will have positive, lasting effects on how that child interacts with and values people unlike themselves later in life.
The best way to learn and grow is through meaningful collaboration with peers, challenging experiences outside of a person’s comfort zone, and taking responsibility for themselves and others.
Outcomes
As a firm believer in measuring effectiveness, we have created several metrics for our program that we will track during trips as well as long after we’ve returned home. Some goals are easy to measure, while others may come with time. In either case, outcomes will play a key role in how we plan to support our community through outdoor adventure. For more information on what this looks like, drop us a line.
Social & Emotional
Campers return with greater self-awareness, the ability to self-manage, and a desire to make sound decisions for themselves and others.
New Relationship Skills
Each camper can speak to crossing lines of difference to build new relationships.
Camper Commitment
The majority of families will want their child(ren) to return in future years and will refer other families.
Land Stewards
Campers commit to and model environmentally healthy practices at home
Founder & Director
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FOUNDER
A lifelong educator and school leader, Adam grew up in the Twin Cities and spent much of his youth trudging around the wilds of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area in Northern MN. He left the Midwest to earn his B.A. in History with a teaching license from Colorado State University. On the weekends and summers he lived and worked in Estes Park, CO, where he also developed a passion for rock climbing, and continued to develop his backcountry experience.
As a teacher in Denver, Adam found any/all opportunity to get his students outside and into the mountains - going so far as to start a weekend club that brought students on ski and climbing trips.
After some time as an administrator in Denver, Adam moved to Dallas, TX, to become the founding principal or Texas’s first EL Education high school school.
Seeing a need to provide more youth with the opportunity to get outside and experience the outdoors, Adam has spent the last few years working on getting RW up and running, while also continuing to support educational efforts in a local school district.