PSIA-AASI values lifelong adventures through education for all. To live our values, inclusion must be inherent in our culture; demonstrated through our Learning Connection model and by our respect and support for each other, our students, and all whose lives can be enriched through snowsports. PSIA-AASI recognizes that opportunity, representation, acceptance, and access are not always distributed equitably throughout our organization or the snowsports industry as a whole. Whether intentional or not, the impact of exclusion is real.

We promote strategies and best practices to ensure educational opportunities are available to everyone, and to meaningfully diversify representation at all leadership levels. We promote actions to empower women and other historically underrepresented groups, to retain them in the industry, and to enhance their professional development. We believe these actions also strengthen PSIA-AASI’s culture and, as an education organization for ski and snowboard instructors, we can and will do more to educate on the topics of diversity, equity, and inclusion within our sphere of influence.

Rocky Mountain Region Land Acknowledgement

We at PSIA-AASI Rocky Mountain would like to respectfully acknowledge the Indigenous Nations of these lands where we work, live, and recreate. We recognize the impact their forced removal and relocation has had on their communities, and we commit to educating ourselves and others about continued care for the land, and the inclusion and respect of these Nations.

Although by no means a comprehensive naming, we uplift the Núu-agha-tʉvʉ-pʉ̱ (Ute), hinono’eino’ biito’owu’ (Arapaho), Tséstho’e (Cheyenne), Pâri (Pawnee), ^^(Osage), Pueblos, Apache, Hohokam, Nʉmʉnʉʉ Sookobitʉ (Comanche), Shiwinna (Zuni), Jumanos, Kiikaapoi (Kickapoo), Gáuigú (Kiowa), Umoⁿhoⁿ (Omaha), Tséstho’e (Cheyenne), Apsaalooké (Crow), and Očhéthi Šakówiŋ (Sioux) as original inhabitants and stewards of the lands across the Rocky Mountain Region.

Our regional office in Steamboat Springs stands in the Yampa Valley. In particular, we would like to acknowledge the past and continued stewardship of Núu-agha-tʉvʉ-pʉ̱ (Ute) Nation and other Indigenous Nations upon whose native lands we now reside.

To learn more about the history of the Ute Nation, click here: https://www.southernute-nsn.gov/history/

To learn about the Indigenous Peoples of the area where you reside or work, click here: https://native-land.ca/