Sam Bertolino is a snowboarder from Long Island who worked at the Burton store in Vail before joining Burton's Rocky Mountain Rep Team and eventually scoring a dream job at Burton's headquarters in Burlington Vermont. Not afraid to speak up about the problem of not representing marginalized groups in product development and marketing material at Burton, Sam found herself emailing important people at work about these issues. After years of speaking up, Sam sent the email that is most likely credited with Burton letting Terje go.
This is an episode with strongly divisive content.