About Mara White
Mara Noel White is a world traveler, trail runner, and joyriding cyclist— affectionately known on the trail as The Tiny Adventurer. She’s completed multi-day treks and long-distance bike tours across the globe, always in search of natural beauty, new experiences, and meaningful connections.
A licensed social worker with over 15 years of experience, Mara is deeply committed to gender and social equity. Her work focuses on expanding access to the outdoors for women, LGBTQ+, and BIPOC communities, and she’s been a longtime advocate for creating inclusive, empowering spaces.
Mara has also volunteered as an urbanist advocate, a girls’ running and life skills coach, and a content creator for nonprofit organizations. She delights in helping others—especially women and girls—build confidence and discover their potential. Through the power of storytelling she seeks to inspire and spark that sense of adventure that is in all of us!
Cycling over 5,000km from France to Istanbul
She looks down at her arm, at the harm she has done. For a moment she felt relief, but the moment was brief, and she feels pain again. Self-harm is something she does to her body when her mind and heart are hurting. She doesn’t seem to realize how precious her body is. She doesn’t seem to know that she is worthy of her own love. She doesn’t seem to understand yet that her body is powerful, and it is the very thing that can help her heal.
- Self-harm often coincides with eating disorders, which is arguably another form of self-harm.
- 1 in 4 girls self-harm, though it’s thought that the statistics are actually higher.
- Women and girls are self-harming at twice the rate of men in North America and Europe. The numbers continue to increase, particularly among young girls.
Why Get Out and Give Back?
“I am very passionate about advocating for women in the outdoors, and helping to raise awareness so that women feel empowered and discover their potential, removing the personal limits they have placed on themselves and addressing the systemic barriers that prevent more women from being able to access the outdoors”