Women Mind the Water

Carlos Mallo Molina was a civil engineer who became a marine conservationist and founder of Innoceana. In 2025, Carlos was awarded a Goldman Environmental Prize for his work founding and leading Innoceana, an organization with a mission to protect critically important areas of the ocean. The impetus for the change was the plan to build a port in a sensitive marine area of the Canary Islands. He is...

Bonnie Blaylock, author of historical novel The Water Women , is the latest guest on Wo(men) Mind the Water Artivist Series. This engaging story explores the bonds between mothers and daughters who weave golden threads from the beards of mussels. Amazingly, the craft is real and has occurred in Sardinia for generations! https://womenmindthewater.com/artivist-series/bonnie-blaylock

Maya van Rossum is the Delaware Riverkeeper , founder of Green Am endments for the Generations , author of The Green Amendment: The People's Fight to Secure a Clean, Safe, and Healthy Environment a nd a lawyer. She has devoted her energies to securing that every state has a Green Amendm ent, an amendment that assures our rights to a healthy environment by enshrining them in a state's con...

ISusan Gardner is the Director of the Ecosystems Division for the United Nations Environment Program. Susan Gardner is based in East Africa. She grew up in the United States where she learned to scuba dive.  After graduate school, she worked in a remote fishing village on the Pacific coast of Mexico studying sea turtles. She learned in that experience what it means to have people and economies and...

Kaileia Duriano is an Indigenous Hawaiian trained in both Hawaiian cultural practices and academic marine biology. She discusses the differences between Indigenous and academic practices and what needs to be done to maintain Hawaii's natural beauty and abundance.

Megan Smylie is the Sea Otter Program Manager at the Aquarium of the Pacific. She coordinates the Sea Otter Surrogacy Program, a program aimed at rehabilitating orphaned sea otter pups and successfully reintroducing them back into the wild. Megan talks about growing up near Long Beach and how the ocean has always been her happy place. Although she majored in psychology in college her knowledge of...