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Watershed Chats: Black Girls Surf, Changing the Visuals & Imagining The African Triple Crown with RHONDA HARPER
Waterpeople Podcast
English - August 12, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour - 50.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 296 ratingsSports Society & Culture surfing surfers waterpeople surf watermen ocean science storytelling diving play Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Rhonda Harper is a U.S. Coast Guard veteran, and founder of the NGO Black Girls Surf, which creates access opportunities for black and brown women and girls to experience surfing.
Black Girls Surf is fostering a new generation of recreational and professional surfers through international training camps, while pushing back on exclusive surf media.
Parallel to Black Girls Surf, Rhonda is working to further develop professional surfing in Africa , by dreaming up an African Triple Crown: a series of professional surfing events to highlight indigenous surfers. Her mission is to continue diversifying the visuals of surfing and surf culture.
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Welcome to our mini series, Watershed Chats, conversational deep dives with experts and those in service of solutions for a healthy and habitable future on Planet Ocean.
Watershed Chats are presented by The Waterpeople Podcast in collaboration with Patagonia.
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