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Dawn Canapary

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One of Dawn’s career goals is to be a Llama Wrangler.

That would be unusual, except that in the Can-Do-Make-It-happen-World-of-Dawn, it makes perfect sense. She grew up in a smaller-than-small town along the Merced River just outside of Yosemite and then went to Oberlin College in Ohio on a soccer scholarship. Of course she did. She then graduated from UC Santa Cruz (while in Washington) with a degree in Geology, and hopes to someday own a bakery. Of course she does.  Then in the same winter she took a trip down a hippopotamus infested river in Africa and (got one step closer to being a llama wrangler) became a horse wrangler in Argentina.  Of course she did.  If you’re lucky enough to wrangle a trip with Dawn, her infectious smile, silly jokes and get it done attitude will really rope you in. Of course it will.

Dawn Canapary
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