Karen Ramos & Adriana Garcia - Starting a Movement to Encourage Diversity in the Outdoors

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🗓️ 16 May 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Karen Ramos and Adriana Garcia are two young women who started movements to encourage diversity and representation in the outdoor industry. Karen founded Get Out, Stay Out, an organization that connects indigenous-migrant children with the outdoors. Adriana is the co-founder LatinX Hikers, a platform to showcase people from diverse backgrounds participating in outdoor activities.

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0:00.0	This is episode 74 with Karen Ramos and Adriana Garcia.
0:05.6	Welcome to Wild Ideas Worth Living,
0:09.7	an adventure podcast presented by REI Co-op, the brand who helps get you outside through
0:15.0	gear, classes, and adventures.
0:17.6	We talk to experts who have taken a wild idea and made it a reality so you can too. From people who have climbed the tallest peaks,
0:24.4	started thriving businesses, and even broken records,
0:27.6	some of the wildest ideas can lead to the most rewarding adventures.
0:32.0	I'm your host, Shelby Stangeranger and I hope you enjoy this show.
0:41.7	Diversity in the outdoors it's a topic that's been hitting the media more,
0:45.3	which is why we're featuring these two females opening up the discussion in their communities.
0:50.3	Karen Ramos is 25 and the founder of a get-out stay-out.
0:55.0	They take immigrant kids and now teens and introduce them to the outdoors
0:59.0	along the central coast of California.
1:02.0	Karen is the daughter of migrant workers turned entrepreneurs.
1:05.4	Adriana Garcia is 30, she grew up Mormon, half Mexican, and in the South.
1:11.1	Adriana recently left her accounting job to found Latinx hikers with her friend Luce Lutima.
1:17.8	It's become a platform that's showcasing more people of color, doing things outside, especially in the southeast where they live.
1:25.4	I interviewed these ladies separately about their own history, some of their most memorable
1:29.7	experiences in the outdoors, and how they're trying to change the landscape of who plays outside.
1:35.6	It's a story of resilience, courage, and it's pretty real.
1:39.6	If anything, it might make you want to go outside and include more people in your
1:44.3	journey. We're starting with Karen Ramos, founder of Get Out, Stay Out.
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