Ella Boyd is a writer, photographer, philosopher, and surfer. She is a Digital Content Coordinator at Vans, a Journalist at YÜTH Magazine, and the Surf Columnist for the San Clemente Times. Formerly, she was an Archivist at the Encyclopedia of Surfing and a Staff Writer at The Inertia and Powder Magazine. Her work has appeared in Daybreak, Pacific Longboarder, and The Surftime Journal, among other places. She is originally from Maine.