Edee Kulper grew up in Richardson, Texas, and Cambria, California. She has a degree in Cultural Anthropology from UC Santa Barbara, and has lived on Orcas Island with her husband and their two children since 2012. Edee has been a newspaper photographer, a magazine research editor, a wedding photographer, a kayak rolling instructor, a Backroads bike tour leader, a Kern River rafting guide, a ski lift operator, an alternative energy researcher, a finalist for Jeopardy's Clue Crew, a chocolate expert's assistant, a radio show interviewer, a local TV show creator and host, and a homeschooling mom. She has collected core samples at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, kayaked Kauai's Na Pali Coast, jeeped across Bolivia's Salar de Uyuni, rafted Chile's Biobío and Futaleufú Rivers, backpacked in Patagonia, photographed a Kenyan orphanage, swum the Cook Islands' waters, walked Italy's scenic towns, and experienced life in remote Fijian island villages. She loves life and learning people's stories, and is always up for the next big adventure.