Meghan Buchanan

In 2024, she became the 25th woman and first aerospace engineer to reach the Seven Summits, the highest mountain peaks on each of the seven continents. By next year, she hopes to become the fifth U.S. woman to complete the Explorer’s Grand Slam, which includes reaching all seven summits, as well as skiing to the North and South poles. She developed GGRIT, a five-part framework for overcoming obstacles and tackling challenges, inspired by her experiences as an adventure athlete with dyslexia. With the publishing of Meghan’s book GGRIT: Choose to Rise, her personal mantra of gratitude, growth, resilience, integrity and tenacity was made available to the world.