Out & Back
Running on Coffee with Ian Williams and Amir Armstrong
The Deadstock Run Club is giving people of color in Portland a place to come together, connect and get moving.
Alison Mariella Désir
Alison Mariella Désir is a runner, author, and speaker making a big impact. She hosts Out & Back and wrote Running While Black: Finding Freedom in a Sport That Wasn't Built for Us. alison.desir@cascadepbs.org
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Equity
Out & Back: Competitive athlete Rosalie Fish runs for the lost
The UW runner strives to keep missing and murdered Indigenous women and two-spirit people from being forgotten.
Out & Back
Activism on the Run with Rosalie Fish
First drawn to the sport for health benefits, athlete Rosalie Fish hit her stride advocating for missing and murdered Indigenous women and two-spirit people.
Equity
Out & Back: Outdoor solace for Seattle's queer people of color
A love of the outdoors and a longing for community are the founding principles of Jas Maisonet's QPOC Hikers.
Out & Back
Everyone Outside with Jas Maisonet
QPOC Hikers started as a place for people to bond over the outdoors. It’s become so much more.