The Dirtbag Fund Team
Cedar Wright
President / Head Dirtbag
Cedar Wright is a Professional Climber and Filmmaker living in Boulder Colorado. As a member of The North Face Team, Cedar has traveled the world establishing adventurous and daring first ascents, often documenting these exploits through his writing and cinematography.
Cedar is a National Geographic Explorer, a Contributing Editor at Climbing Magazine, and has won numerous awards for his films, including the popular Sufferfest franchise, which he also stars in along with his good friend Alex Honnold. Cedar is a humble and approachable person known for his goofy sense of humor, and infectious lust for life, and is always game for an outrageous adventure.
While studying English and Creative Writing in Northern California, Cedar fell in love with rock climbing, and soon after graduation he moved into his truck (he now lives in a house) and began following his climbing dreams full time. For over 5 years Cedar was a member of the Yosemite Search and Rescue Team, and when he wasn't hanging out of a helicopter he was climbing his ass off. He got pretty good at it.
Today, Cedar is one of the most recognized professional climbers in the United States, and continues to push himself as a climber and creative. Cedar has climbed El Capitan free in a day, established traditional 5.13 first ascents in Yosemite and Indian Creek, and pioneered difficult new Alpine Rock Routes in places like Pakistan, the Bugaboos, and Alaska. Cedar is also becoming an accomplished Paragliding Pilot with a flight from 18,490' Pico de Orizaba, the third highest mountain in North America. Cedar measures his net worth in experience, and continues to be a driven, passionate and prolific climber and story teller.
Kathryn Klein
Vice President
Kathryn Klein spent almost a decade chasing the American dream while building an impressive resume. She frequently ran board rooms filled with men twice her age and by the end of 2021 she had successfully scaled and sold Future Seating, a high-end office furniture company, as the Head of Finance & Operations.
Months later she had her first run in with the dirtbag community in Potrero Chico, Mexico. The inspiring individuals she met cracked open her reality and ushered in her search for meaning. She soon realized she had been chasing the wrong dreams and it was time for a drastic change. Not knowing what was next but having finally gathered the courage to jump, that fall she sat in El Cap meadow and drafted her resignation.
Kathryn lives nomadically but calls Yosemite home. Community, connection, and time spent in nature are her guiding lights and she measures her success in the positive impact she is able to have on the lives of others. Her van may stand out at the crag but it has been home to dozens of dirtbags. She will do her best to suffer up your warm up as a self proclaimed top-rope princess and has cried on one too many multi-pitches but continues to push her own limits in climbing.
The Dirtbag Fund presented Kathryn with the passion project of a lifetime. It gave her a path to utilize what she’s best at in a way that aligns with her values and gives back to the community that changed the course of her life and gave her the home she had always wanted.
Board of Directors
May Perez
Alex Honnold
Ryan Molinare
Dan Cervelli