Episodes
Artwork from The Trail Ahead Podcast
Outside Voices presents: The Trail Ahead Podcast and "Diversity and Representation in Running from Track to Trail with Adam Merry"
Take a listen to an episode of a podcast we love: The Trail Ahead Podcast, hosted by Faith E. Briggs and Addie Thompson. This episode features Adam Merry, a track and trail runner who has raced up to 100K! Despite his accomplishments, he’s faced challenges in diversity and representation in running, and is working towards building more inclusive and community-minded outdoor spaces.
Walkie Talkies: A bi-monthly Co-hosted conversation
Welcome to Walkie Talkies, an Outside Voices bi-monthly roundtable conversation with co-hosts Sarah Shimazaki, Aly Ferguson, and Neecole Bostick! In addition to our regular content, you'll be hearing more from our co-hosts as we chat about our own experiences in the outdoors, outdoor equity, and reflect on the growth of the Outside Voices community. Grab your headphones and join us around the campfire for a Walkie Talkie!
Artwork by Ezra Manjarrez
a mini-series exploring our cultural connections to fishing
Untangling features three individuals and “untangles” their connections to fishing— its many lines, threads, and stories. Black, Indigenous, and people of color are not only fishing but have been fishing for thousands of generations.
Featured in this mini-series: Queen Quet, Brianne Lauro, and Autumn Harry
Photo courtesy of Cristina Eisenberg
A journey back to traditional ecological knowledge with Cristina EisenBerg
Cristina Eisenberg is the Director of College Tribal Initiatives at the Oregon State University School of Forestry. As a professor of ecology and traditional ecological knowledge, she brings a TEK lens to western science to enhance conservation efforts and create more sustainable ecosystems.
Returning to the riverside and fighting for clean water with Xavier Boatright
Xavier Boatright is an environmental justice organizer working to ensure everyone has equal access to clean air, clean water, and safe places to spend time outside. In this episode, Xavier shares his experience growing up on a farm, getting drafted into and playing for the NFL, and going up against a coal plant polluting his community. This episode was hosted and co-produced by Aly Ferguson.
A home for Asian women with Camp Cosmos
Created as a space where Asian women could safely experience joy, community, and healing in nature, Camp Cosmos facilitates outdoor experiences like hiking, kayaking, and camping. Listen as participants reflect on cultural traditions connected to nature such as the mid-autumn festival, unpack their identity as Asian “hyphen” Americans, and share what finding home or coming back to ancestral lands, means to them.
Photo: Denisse Jonsson at Lotus Eyes Photography
Women Making Waves with Take Me Fishing
Host and Producer Sarah Shimazaki travels with Take Me Fishing to tropical Orlando, Florida for her very first time fishing. Amidst the camaraderie, laughter, and support, she learns the easy way that fishing is about so much more than catching a fish— it’s about the connections you make with others, with your food, and with the land. This episode also features Ashley Nichole Lewis, Cindy “Sid” Nguyen, and Jenny Anderson.
Artwork by Ezra Manjarrez
Belonging: a mini-series celebrating immigrants in the outdoors
“Belonging” features four individuals who identify as immigrants or first-generation, shares stories about their personal and cultural connections to the outdoors, and celebrates everyone’s right to find belonging outside.
Featured in this mini-series: Noami Grevemberg, Francis Mendoza, Pınar Sinopoulos-Lloyd, and Dr. Cristal Cisneros.
Photo by Stephanie Marquez
S2, Episode 6: camping in sleeping bonnets with Camp Founder Girls
In 1924, Mattie Landry started a camp and summer outdoor experience that would transform the lives of young Black girls in the San Antonio Eastside community: Camp Founder Girls. It's America’s first historically Black summer camp for girls. Angelica Holmes and the team from Black Outside, Inc. recently restarted the camp. Listen to the story of that revitalization and hear from a family of two young girls and their mother about how camp has positively impacted their lives.
Photo by Alex Piechowski-Begay
S2, Episode 5: Live with Laura Edmondson at the no Man’s Land Film Festival
Listen in on a live (virtual) conversation at the 2021 No Man's Land Film Festival with Laura Edmondson! We talk about Laura's childhood in the outdoors and how that cultivated a strong sense of place, her identity as a Black, mixed-race woman and transracial adoptee, plus insights into her work as a digital educator as well as her commitment to rest and slowing down.
Photo courtesy of Sierra Club Military Outdoors
S2, Episode 4: Rebuilding a sense of self together with Military Outdoors
The transition from military service to civilian life is far from easy. Two Black veterans, Charm and Amine, were deeply impacted by their experiences finding community in nature and rebuilding a sense of self with the Sierra Club Military Outdoors (SCMO) program. In this episode, they share beloved childhood memories in Belize and Morocco, speak out about their complicated perspectives of the military, and share stories from their SCMO outings.
Photo courtesy of Michelle and Kenya
S2, Episode 3: Hiking, Healing, and Adornment with Kenya and Michelle
Outdoor Journal Tour is a haven, a space for those who identify as women to overcome mental and emotional mountains while climbing physical mountains. We talked with Michelle and Kenya about how this organization and its purpose align with their personalities, how it is needed even more in 2020, and about the intersectionality of being Black women in the outdoor industry.
Photo courtesy of Chad Brown
S2, EPISODE 2: FLY FISHING FOR THE SOUL WITH CHAD BROWN
Chad shares his love for fly fishing and how he’s expanding that love to help youth experience nature with Soul River Inc. We chat about Chad’s childhood in Texas, his experience in the military and how he’s navigating his subsequent PTSD, plus his thoughts following the recent uprising for Black lives. This episode was hosted and co-produced by Tariq Rashid.
Photo by Zubin Shroff
S2, EPISODE 1: GROWING BLACK SEEDS WITH DOMINIQUE COWLING
What does it look like when we prioritize healing for Black folks and invite them to reconnect to nature and the wisdom of their body? Dominique Cowling is a Black, queer femme and justice-oriented facilitator who offers 1:1 sessions for Black folks in the forest. Join us for a conversation with Dominique and breathe with us as she guides us through a mindfulness and body awareness practice.
Photo by Sarah Shimazaki
S1, Episode 5: Gathering community at refuge outdoor festival
Spending time outside isn't just about solitude and silence. At the Refuge Outdoor Festival, people of color and allies are invited to gather and build community. We chat with Chevon, the founder of Refuge, and her parents who traveled all the way from Houston, Texas to camp for the first time.
Photo courtesy of Brittany Leavitt
S1, Episode 4: Finding Black joy in the outdoors with Brittany Leavitt
An avid climber, hiker and outdoor leader, Brittany’s (she/her) connection to nature is rooted in something deeper. The outdoors plays a huge role in helping her heal and move through grief and also in asserting her identity and finding her personal Black joy.
Photo courtesy of the National Park Service
S1, Episode 3: Gardening as resilience at manzanar
Confined behind barbed wire in their own country, nearly 120,000 Japanese were forced to adopt new ways of living to survive incarceration during World War II. One way they found solace was through building traditional Japanese gardens within the harsh concentration camp environment.
Photo by Sarah Shimazaki
S1, Episode 2: Centering healing at PGM ONE
As People of the Global Majority (People of Color), what does it look like to heal our relationship to ourselves, to our planet and to each other? We’re exploring these questions and bringing you the magic and wisdom from the third annual People of the Global Majority in the Outdoors, Nature and Environment summit (PGM ONE).
Photo by Monica Medellin
S1, Episode 1: Sharing the stoke with olivia vandamme
Olivia (she/her) finds strength in her ancestry and in indigenous stories of connection to the ocean. These relationships affirm her existence as a Latina in the surfing community and help her share that love and sense of belonging with the youth she works with.
Our trailer features excerpts from interviews with Ahjani Yepa, Olivia VanDamme, Adam Hymans, Evelyn Shimazaki and Bam Mendiola.
