Challenging the Status Quo with Joe Gray
Wild Ideas Worth Living
English - June 22, 2020 09:00 - 37 minutes - 34.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 904 ratingsWilderness Sports Society & Culture Documentary activelifestyle adventure alternativelifestyle athlete author backpacking camping climbing cycling endurancesports Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Joe Gray is an accomplished trail, mountain, and snowshoe runner. He was the first Black athlete to make the Team USA World Mountain Running Team and the first Black American to win the U.S.A. National Mountain Running Championships, which he has now done 18 times. But even with all this success, Joe is frustrated by the lack of diversity not only in pro running, but also in media coverage and sponsorship of the sport. He knows that young Black athletes aren’t pursuing the sports he loves because they don’t see themselves represented, so he’s doing something about it with his organization, Project Inspire Diversity.
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