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I'm so excited to be a part of the Marlin Ray family. I have been following Marlin Ray from day one and became an instant fan for life. I fell in love with the product and its values around slow and conscious production. I am infinitely inspired by the Kenyan manufacturing team at Wildlife Works and their dedication to protecting the environment and wildlife.  When Josh and Joyce told me they were looking for someone to take over the business, I jumped at the opportunity. I already have a business importing small producer wines from Chile so I was ready...

A decade ago I sailed a small wooden sailboat from San Francisco to Kauai with 3 friends. It was an unforgettable voyage. Nineteen days of constant wind-powered motion got us from here to there, and traversing that massive open ocean for so long helped me to cultivate an intimate and overwhelming connection to the planet. I felt no distractions out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean: no cell phone signal, no television, very few books, and the ever-present weather kept me on high alert to the constantly changing conditions of the sea and myself. Nighttime was nothing but starlight...

I thought I was on my way to really making it: I had just been hired as marketing director for a boutique global fashion brand based in Hong Kong. It was 2007 and I was on top of the world. With one month’s notice, I sold my car and hopped on a plane from New York to Hong Kong with 2 pieces of luggage - one suitcase full of shoes. Soon I was flying business class to cities around the world organizing press events and photo shoots. It was fancy, and I worked my ass off. But the fancy job...

Thanks to years of work in South America as an activist for the coastal environment, I was deep in the surf industry. After the catastrophic 2010 earthquake and tsunamis in Chile, I doubled down on my coastal conservation efforts. With a ton of support from great people and organizations such as Save the Waves, Waves for Water, Patagonia and many other individuals, foundations and companies, I poured my heart and soul into helping local Chilean people dig out and recover from that disaster. It was inspiring and wonderful work and also an incredibly difficult time for me. As a surfer...

Surfing came into Marlim Reynosa’s life at a time when she felt lost and was experiencing panic attacks. It wasn’t until a friend who was living on the Dominican Republic's North Coast invited Marlim to visit did surfing become accessible for her culturally. By Marlim Reynosa, lead instructor at Brown Girl Surf  Even though I went to college in Southern California, the mecca of surfing, I never thought it was for me. Everything about it felt so alien. It was only when I saw surfing in a familiar cultural setting (Dominicans surfing in my country), was I able to think of surfing...