Inside Cascade PBS
Why access to the outdoors has never been equitable
Our new video and podcast series 'Out & Back' focuses on people of color who are challenging the exclusionary and violent history of outdoor spaces.
Alison Mariella Désir
Alison Mariella Désir is a professional runner, writer, 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.
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Equity
Out & Back: Activist Alison Mariella Désir finds her PNW community
The runner and former Bronxite journeys west and connects with BIPOC who are reclaiming outdoor spaces.
Out & Back
Meaning Through Movement: An Introduction
Meet host Alison Mariella Désir as she tells her story of reclaiming the outdoors in New York before she and her family moved to the PNW.