Stories for Change

Join us on a bike ride and Moroccan tea ceremony with Khadija in Portland, Maine! Khadija shares how growing up in Morocco influenced her outlook on travel, community, and connecting with nature. Transcript available. Process Coordinators : Silver Smith, Tessa Shanteler. Connector : Sarah Madronal. Administrator : Rosanna Gargiulo. Interviewer : Jen Hazard. Transcriber: Kalisto Nanen. Editors: Meg...

Join Ann Pollard-Ranco, a Penobscot citizen, writer, photographer, and advocate for indigenous land access as she speaks with her cousin Sikwani Dana about language, memories, land, and dreams for the future. Connecter & Interviewer : Sikwani Dana. Administrator : Adrienne Singer. Audio producer : Aubrey Calaway. Photographer : Jen Hazard. Transcriber : Serena Blasius. Editor: Audrey Cole. Sto...

Join Isidora Muñoz Segovia on Mount Desert Island as she explores a movement practice and shares her perspective on how the climate crisis is a crisis of care. Isi is a climate justice and nutrition educator who lives in Bar Harbor. This story is part of the Stories for Change initiative by the Nature Based Education Consortium. This story was a collaboration between Isidora Muñoz Segovia and St...

Mihku Paul, a Wolastoqey (Maliseet) educator, artist, writer, and activist, takes a walk at Fore River Sanctuary. She shares about what she learned from a traditional elder as a child, her current work as an educator and artist, and reads an original poem, "A Snail Primer." This story is part of the Stories for Change initiative by the Nature Based Education Consortium. This story was a collaborat...

Sass Borodkin, a queer, nonbinary visual artist and poet and community organizer in Maine, talks about their relationship to nature, experiences of homelessness, and investment in mutual aid. This story is part of the Stories for Change initiative by the Nature Based Education Consortium , a Maine systems-change network seeking to expand equitable access to outdoor learning for all Maine youth. In...

Mike Reynolds, a 49-year-old disabled, gay man from Lewiston, talks about his childhood in nature in Maine, learning and competing in freestyle biking, and the true meaning of accessibility in outdoor spaces. This story is part of the Stories for Change initiative by the Nature Based Education Consortium. Interviewer: Sikwani Dana. Audio producer: Aubrey Calaway. Photographer: Nirmala Young. Trans...