Jessie is a former member of the US Freestyle Kayak team, and is the founder of Soft Power Health – an organization that provides health care services in Uganda.
The Aquapac Outdoor Champion programme is designed to showcase individuals whose accomplishments highlight a balance between conservation, humanitarianism and recreational accomplishments. The appointment comes with a $1,500 award. She could have done whatever she liked with the cash. Jessie asked us to pay it over to Soft Power Health.
A native of Purchase, NY, Stone founded the Inner City Kids Kayak Camps on New York’s Hudson River and is still an active competitive paddler. But she spends nearly half the year in Uganda running Soft Power Health, a clinic she established in 2004 in the village of Kyabirwa on the Nile River.
This is a shot of Jessie taken in Switzerland just last week:
