Our Team
“These are two humble guys with incredible stories—one overcoming a mountaineering accident, and the other living with Muscular Dystrophy, but what truly sets them apart is their friendship, which has become a force for change in the lives of vulnerable people in Arizona.
They’ve tackled tough challenges, empowered youth and families in need of hope, and shown us all that everyone belongs and is a gift to our community.”
—David, Award Ceremony, US Sailing Community Sailing
Jack is an innovative leader with decades of experience in leadership development with universities, businesses, and relief organizations globally. A strategist and advocate, Jack’s work bridges cultures and barriers to create pathways with new emerging leaders. He is committed to people with disabilities and youth from cultural backgrounds learning to overcome ambiguity and challenges, so they become positive change agents.
Jack’s journey is deeply personal. He had a mountain climbing accident which left him paralyzed from the waist down. He is actively engaged in advocacy in global cultures, businesses, and communities. He has a passion for sailing, creating social and economic change, cross-cultural friendships, global travel and being in nature with his hunting dog.
As an author and speaker, Jack puts a spotlight on the leadership potential of people with disabilities in forgotten places around the globe. His research focuses on organizational systems involved with recruiting and training emerging leaders to become catalysts of change.
Jake Geller has been involved in adaptive sports since he was 10 years old, skiing with his family in Vermont and being the first to ski with adaptive equipment (first a sit-ski and then a bi-ski) at Mount Snow, Vermont. He is an advocate for adaptive sports and making sports accessible to all.
Although he grew up in the Boston area, he first learned to sail after living in Arizona for five years in 2002, thanks to Jack and Voyages Unbound. He first got involved in sailing because of the opportunity to sail a Martin 16 which allows sailors with disabilities to easily get out sailing.
He was co-founder and head coach of the Sailing Club at ASU for 18 years until 2023. The club continues to compete in intercollegiate and regional competitions.
Geller completed his Master of Mass Communication with an emphasis in print journalism and public relations at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University in May 2010 and received his undergraduate degree from the Cronkite School in broadcasting in 2002
In addition to coaching, he was the inaugural director at the National Center on Disability & Journalism at the Cronkite School in downtown Phoenix and consults on where disability and journalism intersect. He has also worked as a journalist producing, editing and writing for broadcast and print.