Jeff Chen, Fulton, MD

Jeff Chen is the walkin’, trash-grabbin’, Director of Digital Media for Pick Up America, a group of four recent college grads walking Westward, picking up trash, and opening up the dialogue about our nation’s throwaway mentality. He co-founded the group in 2010 based on an idea he had during his 2006 SCA internship at Yosemite National Park. Life (in 2009) before walking West was spent workin’ and ramblin’ the American West, producing short videos for Inyo National Forest and High Country News. He graduated from the University of Maryland in 2008 with a degree in Broadcast Journalism, minor in Music, and concentration in Environmental Science & Technology. During school, he worked part-time for National Geographic and the DC affiliate for NBC. Birthed, raised, and schooled in Maryland, Jeff now tends to enjoy life in less populated areas where public lands are aplenty. He also plays the same folk songs over and over again. Email Jeff