Introducing the Clean Air Climbers!

This is just the start! If YOU want to be a Clean Air Climber, we'd love to have you on the team! To join:

1) Click on this link to our team climb page, hidden in the box with our team name is a "Join the Team" link.

2) Fill out the form. You may set your own fundraising goal but the Lung Association recomends a minimum of $100.

3) If asked, enter Clean Air Climbers as your team name! Welcome to the team!

Rebecca Lehman moved to Cincinnati in 1998 to become a Bearcat. Except for a few years in a city she dubbed "the Cincinnati of China," she's been a happy and engaged resident since.

She is still a Bearcat - after earning a BA in English Literature and an MS in Community Health Promotion & Education, she stuck around to work in Student Activities & Leadership Development. Most specifically, she works with the Racial Awareness Program and in campus and community outreach involving crosscultural communication skills and critical multicultural education.

Rebecca is also involved locally as a co-host of Northern Kentucky Living Liberally, home discussion groups with the Northwest Earth Institute, and the diversity committee of the Cincinnati chapter of the Human Rights Campaign.

She climbs because clean air is an important public health issue. After several years in what was then the 19th most polluted city in the world, she has learned to not take clean air for granted.

Chris Flowers moved to Cincinnati in 1994 and with the exception of a 5 year period of traveling around the country and eventually ending up in the Denver suburbs (1998-2003) has lived in the tri-state ever since. He is currently unemployed but has been filling time between job searches by volunteering for various organizations such as Ohioans for Humane Farms, Venice on Vine / Power Inspires Progress, and occasionally for organizations such as the Cincinnati Chapter of the Human Rights Campaign, Special Olympics, and the Racial Awareness Program at UC. He is also the founder of the current Northern Kentucky Chapter of Living Liberally and is also involved with the Cincinnati chapter.

He has also served as a volunteer member of the steering committee for Northern Kentucky Action for nearly 2 years. Being a member of a group that is fighting for clean indoor air while having a relative that suffers from Cystic Fibrosis, he climbs because he feels that having clean air should be the default and no one should have their health put at risk, either indoors or outdoors, because it might be inconvenient for others to provide clean air.