Name: Allen Chen
Age: 25
Hometown: Clovis, California (currently lives in New York)
Occupation: Medical Student

Bio: A former high school valedictorian and honors graduate of Harvard University, Allen Chen recently graduated with a Masters in Public Health from UCLA.

Allen has led backpacking trips for many different age and skill levels. As director of The Children’s Outdoor Experience, he designed and led outdoor trips for first to sixth graders; as a teacher, he led trips of middle school students through New Mexico, Utah and Colorado; and as a trip leader, he guided his peers on weeklong backpacking trips through an outdoor skills program at Harvard.

Allen travels extensively, and has backpacked through Nepal, China, Thailand and Indonesia. Allen has worked in Cairo as a consultant for the Egyptian Ministry of Health and as a snowboard instructor at Lake Tahoe, climbed Kilimanjaro in Africa, trekked through Tibet, and written travel guides for the Pacific Northwest. He constantly snowboards and surfs, and recently trained for and completed a marathon.

Allen describes himself as outgoing and adventurous. He currently lives in New York, where he is a first-year medical student at New York University.