Susan Munroe

Expedition Leader and Founding Member

A founding member of Ríos to Rivers, Susan Munroe is a writer, educator, and river guide. Originally from New Hampshire, now based in Utah, Susan has a passion for travel and experiential education and a love for wild places. Since graduating from Clark University with a B.A. in English in 2005, she has supported her writing and traveling life with a string of adventurous seasonal jobs, eventually settling into a career as a guide on the rivers of the Colorado Plateau.

In 2011–12, Susan spent several months in Chilean Patagonia researching and writing about the controversial HidroAysén hydroelectric project, which threatened the Ríos Baker and Pascua and their communities. As a result of this work, she became friends with the leaders and members of Club Náutico Escualo, a local youth kayaking club, and went on to help found Ríos to Rivers. Susan was honored to lead the first exchanges on the Río Baker and the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon in 2013, and to return to Chile to lead a second exchange trip down the Río Baker in 2018. Her writing has been published in The Santiago Times (an online, English-language newspaper in Chile), in the former Canoe & Kayak Magazine, and on FastCoExist.com