Charm of the Wilderness Ep. 5 - Diversity in the Outdoors and National Parks with KangJae Jerry Lee
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The episode discusses the lack of diversity in outdoor spaces and national parks, featuring guest KangJae Jerry Lee who researches this important issue.
As you’re reading or listening to this, I will be exploring Yellowstone National Park with my family. It’s the perfect on-theme activity for this series! So while I’m out with my family exploring America’s first national park, please enjoy a couple more episodes of the Charm of the Wilderness series. In the meantime, I hope you’re off on some fun summer adventures and I’ll be back with more written content in a couple of weeks! When discussing and writing about the outdoors, there’s always an elephant in the room: the sheer Whiteness of the outdoors space. The major outdoor brands have admittedly struggled to diversify, and there’s a particular White Male Broey-ness that has always made me feel uncomfortable with the whole industry. I wrote about that a few months ago as well . Things are changing, though, but it’s largely been led by people of color who have carved out their corner of the internet and the industry (I’ll include some links of folks to follow below). One area, though, where diversity in the outdoors has lagged, but is largely unacknowledged, is in the national parks. This, of course, is an extension of the general lack of diversity in outdoor spaces, but it’s…
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