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PROFILE

Rachel Sturtz
Rachel Sturtz

reporter for Outside magazine.

Lived and worked in New York City as a staff editor at Fitness. Moonlighted as a freelance travel writer. Spent early mornings at the rail with tobacco-spittin' octogenarian horse trainers in New Orleans; wallpapered the Île Saint-Louis with a Parisian street artist; and attended rehearsals of the renowned Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow.

Moved to Denver and is now a full-time freelance journalist. Her stories have appeared in Outside, Esquire, Hemispheres, Women’s Health, Details, Fitness, Shape, Runner’s World,Running Times, and more. 

FROM Rachel Sturtz

Sexual Abuse in Swimming
Press Play with Madeleine Brand

Sexual Abuse in Swimming Olympic swimmer and coach Jack Nelson died last week. He was famous for coaching the U.S. women’s relay team that beat the favored East Germans at the 1976 Olympics. But he was also accused by one of his star athletes, Diana Nyad, of raping her multiple times when she was a teenager. Nyad is not alone.

11 min, 48 sec Nov 14, 2014

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Broken Family Reunited on Museum Walls Edward Goldman talks about the passing of the legendary Sister Wendy, and the moral responsibility of museums to reunite divided artworks.

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