Zoe Reep

At ASU, Zoe works as a graduate research assistant for Dr. Sabrina Oesterle; and as an AmeriCorps Public Health scholar for the Arizona Child and Adolescent Survivor Initiative (ACASI). Zoe's research seeks to understand effective ways of incorporating the outdoors in mental and behavioral healthcare programming in the United States. Specifically, Zoe has been working to understand how historically marginalized identity groups experience heightened stress in the outdoors, and the implications of outdoor distress in outdoor healthcare programming engagement and effectiveness. In addition to her formal work, Zoe's draw toward computer programming and statistical knowledge offers her opportunities to pioneer programming workshops in the social work doctoral program.

Prior to her work at ASU, Zoe has guided adventure therapy in Utah, instructed rock climbing, kayak safety, and log rolling courses, and a supervised several shops at Yellowstone National Park's Old Faithful Lodge. She also has experience as a middle school counselor and as a mobile crisis clinician in Massachusetts.

As an avid outdoorswoman, Zoe spends much of her (limited) free time seeking low-budget opportunities to adventure. She's explored 32 national parks, thru-hiked the Colorado Trail, WWOOFed in Maine, broken her foot in the Grand Tetons, and, with her brother, built out the back of her RAV4 for car camping. Zoe hopes to support individuals in integrating the outdoors and adventure into their lifestyles in ways that fit their financial, time, responsibility, and psychological safety constraints.