Marjolyn van der Hart

Marjolyn van der Hart

For the past two years, Marjolyn has been the Rear Commodore at ABYC and is now the Vice Commodore for Community Programs. In this role, Marjolyn questioned lack of girls in regatta’s when she volunteered in Race Committee at various regattas. Looking at it closer, Marjolyn realized that the attrition of girls in sailing and lack of girls participating in racing was a result of a larger issue of unconscious bias and structural programming issues. In addition, Marjolyn has had two children participate in junior sailing school programs who eventually instructed and coached young sailors for several years. Acknowledging the value of sailing as a leadership skill development is at the core of her activation in developing Leapsailing.