Rosa Padilla

Rosa fell in love with rock climbing over 12 years ago and has been instructing for 6 of those years. Rosa lives in Bend, OR and when she isn’t guiding at Smith Rock, she works as a high school substitute teacher and Math tutor. She also spends summers working in outdoor education as an instructor for a non-profit which provides youth in underrepresented communities the opportunity to learn how to recreate in the outdoors. Rosa grew up in Florida, but has lived in various parts of the country where she has spent much of her time climbing, biking, hiking and exploring with her pup. She attended college at Georgia Tech in Atlanta where she graduated with a degree in Biomedical Engineering and spent over eight years in the medical device industry. She moved to the Pacific Northwest to pursue her passion for climbing and aspires to ignite that passion in others.