Hikerkind
Hikerkind is a women’s outdoor brand and community. We build design-driven, exploration essentials for city to trail. Hikerkind is bringing a new perspective to the outdoor industry by designing gear for women by women. Hikerkind centers around accessibility through messaging, education, and community. Hikerkind's Hike Club provides opportunities for women to create authentic connections with themselves, each other and nature. Hikerkind exists to inspire, educate and enable women to explore the outdoors.
Hikerkind was founded by two hikers and former fashion stylists Allison Levy and Chelsea Rizzo. Allison and Chelsea started their careers in luxury fashion and bonded over their time spent on the mountain. Allison has been hiking for as long as she can remember all over the world. Chelsea was new to hiking until she thru-hiked the Colorado Trail in 2018. Neither of them felt like they truly looked like themselves while hiking––wearing unflattering silhouettes in dated color-ways and prints. Something was missing. During quarantine, when their industry was at a standstill, Allison approached Chelsea to take this idea of creating good looking clothing, the perfect exploration essentials that can be incorporated into every woman's daily wardrobe, that doesn’t sacrifice performance to the next level. In June 2021 they launched Hikerkind.