Sometimes I have these conversations because I’ve long followed a story and its arc and want to know what that person has learned. And then other times, like this one, I just have a sense that a person has something to say, and I want to hear it. That they have so much to teach me, and that I owe them, at the very least, my undivided attention.

Brittany Leavitt is an educator. By profession, by passion, and by choice. It’s a choice I appreciate. She’s also a listener, though maybe that goes hand in hand with being an educator. Brittany has worked or is working with Brown Girls Climb, Outdoor Afro, Color the Crag, and the Appalachian Trail Conservancy. In 2018 she was part of the first all black US team to summit Kilimanjaro. She does A LOT. She recently went on a roadtrip sponsored by Patagonia, on which she asked 3 important questions to the people she met - I wanted to know how she would answer those same questions.