S3 E12 Jose Gonzalez- Build Constellations Not Stars

Jose Gonzalez is a professional educator, conservationist, artist, community builder, the co-founder of the Outdoorist Oath, and founder of Latino Outdoors. We had the opportunity to sit down with Jose to discuss Latino Outdoors, making structural changes to our approach to environmental conservation, education, engagement and inclusion, the spectrum of nearby nature to far away wilderness, and the power that comes when we build constellations, not stars.

This show is available everywhere you get podcasts June 2, 2023

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S3 E14 Jose Gonzalez- Build Constellations Not Stars – Descript

S3 E11 Lydia Jennings – Building Relationship with Place

Dr. Lydia Jennings is a soil scientist, science communicator, educator, and long-distance runner. We had the opportunity to sit down with Lydia to discuss her work, environmental policy impacts, Indigenous data sovereignty, the cultural history of spaces, running to decode land, 50 Miles for 50 Indigenous Scientists, disrupting deficit narratives, celebrating #LandBack at the Boston Marathon, and building relationship with place.

This show is available everywhere you get podcasts May 26, 2023.

Special Note: At 30.22.50 Lydia remarks that Indigenous communities in the desert have been protected by the desert from colonization. In later discussions she wanted to clarify that she meant protected from the earlier waves of colonization. Obviously, her and other desert communities and Nations have also been impacted, but not in the same way East coast tribes have. We believed this was clear from the context of the conversation but we’re academics, so we appreciate specificity.

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S3 E10 Mardi Fuller – Claiming It!

Mardi Fuller is an Outdoors Woman, fully and unapologetically. She is also a multi-sport athlete, outdoor educator, and outdoor leader. We had the opportunity to sit down with Mardi to discuss the White Mountain region of New Hampshire, the opportunity cost of being in the outdoors as a racialized person, the ridiculousness of ‘firsts’, ski bum culture, racial literacy, water safety in Black communities, and the importance of claiming it.

This show is available everywhere you get podcasts April 28, 2023.

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S3 E9 James Edward Mills – Learning to be Future Elders

James Edward Mills is a freelance journalist, contributor to National Geographic Magazine, a Fellow of the Mountain & Wilderness Writing Program of the Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada, a professional educator, and a recipient of the Paul K. Petzoldt Award For Environmental Education. He is also the author of “The Adventure Gap: Changing the Face of the Outdoors” and the co-writer/co-producer of the documentary film “An American Ascent”. We had the opportunity to sit down with James to talk about his work and upcoming projects, Expedition Denali and how the outdoor world has changed in the 10 years since, the modern history of Black adventuring, the consequences of environmental apathy including the Willow Project, addressing the culture of space, and learning to be future elders.

This show is available everywhere you get podcasts April 21, 2023.

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S3 E8 Ruandy Albisurez – Our Stories Through Our Lens

Ruandy Albisurez is a multisport athlete, professional sports photographer, mountain bike educator, community organizer, and the founder of Warpaint Magazine, filling the gap in media coverage of BIPoC folk in the outdoors. We had the opportunity to sit down with Ruandy to discuss his career and community work, problematic narratives in traditional sports media, extractive journalist practices when working in the global south, the impetus for Warpaint and the importance of telling our stories through our lens.

This show is available everywhere you get podcasts April 14, 2023

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S3 E7 Josephine Baran – Building Tomorrows Leaders

Josephine Baran is a multisport athlete, a professional in the outdoor industry, and the director of the Outward Bound Canada Training Academy. We had the opportunity to sit down with Josephine to discuss her career, the barriers to the outdoors both, recreationally and as a career path, the increase in eco-anxiety, and how the Training Academy is working to change that.

This show is available everywhere you get podcasts March 24, 2023

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S3 E6 Connor Ryan – Obligations not Activism

Connor Ryan is a professional skier, ultra runner, and film director actively working to decolonize the outdoors. We had the opportunity to sit down with Connor for the second time to discuss the huge response to Spirit of the Peaks, Indigenous running traditions, renaming Mount Evans, the importance of placenames and language, and how it’s not activism, it’s an obligation.

This show is available everywhere you get podcasts March 17, 2023

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S3 E5 Coree Woltering – Getting out into the Real World

Coree Woltering is a professional runner of all distances on all surfaces. We had the opportunity to sit down with Coree to discuss his career progression, growing up in the industry, creating space for the next generation, and how getting out into the real world can restore your faith in humanity.

This show is available everywhere you get podcasts March 10, 2023.

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S3 E4 Lamont Joseph White – Mountaintop Futurisms

Lamont Joseph White is a professional artist at the center of the current conversation of meaningful representation and the outdoors. We had the opportunity to sit down with Lamont to discuss his work and upcoming projects, meaningful representation, multiculturalism, Black and Indigenous Futurisms, and how Martin Luther King Jr. ‘I’ve Been to the Mountaintop’ speech inspires his work.

This show is available everywhere you get podcasts March 3, 2023.

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S3 E3 Patricia Cameron – Celebrating Where You Are

Patricia Cameron is the chair of Outdoor Leadership and Recreation Technology at Pikes Peak State College, Vice-Chair of the Board of at Food to Power, and on the board at the Trails and Open Spaces Coalition. She is also a Wilderness First Responder and a Wilderness First Response, First Aid, and Heartsaver CPR instructor, a Certified Interpretive Guide, a Leave No Trace Master Educator, and a 4 times NOLS graduate. 

She was honored in 2020 as a Colorado Springs Woman of Influence and is a freelance writer and photographer, a thru hiker, and the founder of Blackpackers, a 501(c)(3) with a mission to create economic equity in outdoor recreation. We had the opportunity to sit down with Patricia to discuss her work but also to address some hard topics and the importance of celebrating where you are.

This show is available everywhere you get podcasts February 24, 2023.

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S3 E3 Patricia Cameron – Celebrating Where You Are – Descript