Ep. 135 - Rue Mapp - Founder and CEO, Outdoor Afro

Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring

Zack Williams

Outdoors, Wilderness, Sports, Fishing, Outdoor, Hunting, Sports & Recreation

4.6 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2022

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 135: Rue Mapp, founder and CEO, Outdoor Afro

Rue Mapp transformed her kitchen table blog into a national nature business and movement. Today, Mapp is founder and CEO of Outdoor Afro. For more than a decade, the nonprofit has continued to celebrate and inspire Black connections and leadership in nature across the United States. Mapp also is an award-winning and inspirational leader, speaker, public lands champion and author. Her first national book, Nature Swagger: Stories and Visions of Black Joy in the Outdoors, will be released in the fall. Mapp is a National Geographic 2019 fellow, Heinz Awards honoree and National Wildlife Federation communication award recipient as well. Her work has earned international media attention from Oprah Winfrey, The New York Times, Good Morning America, NPR, NBC’s TODAY, Forbes and MeatEater. Be inspired by her wide-ranging conversation with Hal Herring, and follow her adventures @RueMapp.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody this is Hal Herring back country hunters anglers
0:03.6	podcast and blast. Hey uh I am going to introduce today's podcast guest
0:10.7	I'm gonna be with with interviewing Roo Map.
0:15.6	She has been for more than a decade now engaged
0:21.0	in reconnecting black Americans with public lands and the natural world hiking,
0:29.5	fishing, hunting, all of it.
0:33.0	And through that, she has been, is the founder and CEO of Outdoor Afro,
0:40.0	which is now active in 30 states.
0:43.0	They have mentors for people, liaisons,
0:48.0	and there's about 80,000 people who have been engaged in this from the time that Ru started it as a passion project,
0:58.8	blog, in 2009.
1:01.7	I'm proud to get her here. She's one of the most articulate voices in conservation and
1:07.6	the outdoors today in any space by any measure.
1:13.6	And I'm recording this intro after the interview
1:17.4	and I was just completely blown away
1:19.9	by her depth and knowledge and just pure engagement.
1:25.8	I often say on this podcast,
1:27.4	I get way more out of it than I ever give.
1:31.0	And this interview with Ru- is a perfect example of that.
1:36.0	She's also got a new book called Nature Swagger stories and vision of Black Joy in the
1:42.2	outdoors.
1:43.8	I could go on and on.
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