"Everyone has a purpose." Huge thanks to Kelly for sharing her story of social impact as she changed career paths and turned a time of adversity into her discovering her passion. This dark time is what led to her amazing idea and growing company, Access Trax.
Access Trax empowers people of all abilities to access the outdoors through their innovative portable, durable pathway, Beach Trax.
Co-Founders Kelly and Eric both attended graduate school at the University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences in San Diego, CA where they were studying to become occupational therapists.
As part of their curriculum they took a class called Assistive Technology. Students were challenged to create a device that would help persons with disabilities in their daily lives. Kelly and Eric were inspired to help local adaptive surfers cross the sand to the waters edge in their wheelchairs with dignity and independence.
Motivated to create a user-friendly solution, the two designed numerous prototypes and tested them with the adaptive surfing community. The initial concept worked, and they have since continued to improve upon the design with the input of the adaptive surfers and other wheelchair users.
Their goal to have Beach Trax available to the public has been realized in 2018 with the launch of their company, Access Trax.
Access Trax website: https://accesstraxsd.com/