This intersectional ladies’s outdoor group goals to get extra Black, Indigenous and ladies of colour outdoors to take pleasure in, reconnect with and discover therapeutic in nature.
Evelynn Escobar is aware of firsthand how onerous it may be to really feel like an outsider within the outdoor. Despite the fact that she’d spent a pair years mountain climbing native trails in Los Angeles, she did not go to a nationwide park till age 23—and on that journey to Zion, she discovered herself standing out as the one Black particular person among the many crowd.
After that journey she was decided to proceed discovering methods to be in nature, and likewise to verify different Black and Indigenous ladies and ladies of colour had been in a