Women Mind the Water Podcast

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

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.

Susan Gardner, Director of the Ecosystem Division for the United Nations Environmental Program, negotiates global environmental treaties to protect the world's natural resources and works on inclusion of previously underrepresented voices.

Megan Smylie, Sea Otter Program Manager, Aquarium of the Pacific, discusses the Sea Otter Surrogacy Program, a program rehabilitating rescued sea otter pups and releasing them back into the wild.

Andi Cross of Edges of Earth, a company based in Perth Australia provides strategies for companies to achieve tangible solutions in collaboration for organizations on the front line of the climate crisis.

Ashley Kidd cofounder and conservation program manager of the Sunflower Star Laboratory in California. She discusses sunflower sea stars: what they are, why they are critically endangered, how her laboratory is trying to restore them to the wild, and why this is important.

Rebecca works for the Oceanic Preservation Society, a documentary movie production company. It’s a fulfilling job. She is currently involved with post-production work on Speaking with Giants, a film about whale communication.

100 episodes globally produced podcast of ocean art, interviews with artists, marine conservation. Podcast maker discusses podcast production, shares personal stories

Italian photographer Patrizia Zolano lives near the Adriatic Sea, where natural light shapes and unifies much of her work. In this episode of the Wo(men) Mind the Water Artivist Series, Patrizia reflects on her path to photography and the ideas behind two powerful bodies of work: Acqua Alta a Venezia and Plastica Animistica.

Born in Iran and now based in Canada, Parisa left a corporate engineering career in search of work that felt more meaningful. Her journey has since grown into a layered blend of art, business, engineering, and environmental purpose. In this conversation, she reflects on the evolution of her multiple ventures: one that sustains her own life as an artist, another that supports fellow artists, and a...

Renown photographer Angèle Etoundi Essamba, observes, looks, listens, and connects to connect with people and her camera tell the story. A woman of water she focuses on Africa, women, and storytelling.

Amanda Leland, Exec. Dir Environmental Defense Fund, organization focused on climate change, healthy oceans, and more discusses her new book Sea Change, a true story about unlikely allies in pursuit of achieving sustainable fisheries. The book is a narrative of a real Gulf Coast fisherman and Amanda’s pursuit to help find a path forward that would enable fishermen to keep fishing and have a health...

Sophie Maycock, shark biologist, SharkSpeak & Shark: The illustrated biography, guest Wo(men) Mind the Water Artivist Series podcast on womenmindthewater.com. representative Sharks Educational Institute, dedicated shark research, conservation and communication

Stephanie Elzondo Griest is a professor of Creative Nonfiction at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of six books and her latest book is Art Above Everything: One Woman’s Global Exploration of the Joys and Torments of a Creative Life. Stephanie is well acquainted with the healing powers of storytelling and of water. She has traveled the globe speaking with many crea...

Shelby Thomas’ organization Ocean Rescue Alliance International works to restore marine ecosystems. The non-profit constructs artificial reefs that become living sculptures. They’ve installed more than 300 modules, some in the form of mermaids, off southern Florida. They are ideal spots for coral restoration, marine life, for research and tourism. Shelby is the latest guest on the Wo(men) Mind the...

Susan Baur is founder of Old Ladies Against Underwater Garbage, a group of women aged 64 and up that dive for sunken garbage in ponds. Their work restores the ponds and enhances the lives of the women. It’s physically demanding work but the women are rewarded with camaraderie, self-satisfaction, and cookies.

Lily Niederhofer, competitive swimmer/octopus advocate, conceived open-water swim, to raise awareness /money, to stop world’s first industrial-sized octopus farm. The preteen speaks to students and lawmakers hoping to block commercial octopus operations. Wo(men) Mind the Water Artivist Podcast series speaks with the Lewis Pugh Foundation Environmental Sports Champion and Young Planet Leader.

Todd Medema, the latest guest on the Wo(men) Mind the Water Artivist Series podcast, is author of How to surf a hurricane, an ecothriller. We talk about many things including technology, scifi, and climate change. He advises us to recharge and connect with nature, join communities with similar values and start taking action. For Todd, writing his new novel was a way to make a difference.

Gabriel Forestieri and Meredith Sallee are partners in life as well as projectLIMB, their dance company that explores the relationship between humans and water. Their dances are performed while freediving, meaning they move underwater relying on the air contained in their lungs. On this edition of the Wo(men) Mind the Water Artivist Series podcast the couple discuss how they came to dance underwat...

Krista Shoe is founder of Mother of Corals, an organization based in Panama involved in coral restoration and education organization. Mother of Corals others to learn and participate in coral restoration and conducts its own coral restoration to combat rising ocean temperatures.

Arielle Moody worked in the beauty industry for more than 15 years, before she started her own company. Mama Sol was a collaboration between three women who wanted to protect themselves, their children, and the planet from the harmful petrochemicals found in many commercially available sunscreens. Mama Sol’s tagline is: “For all mamas, Mother Earth included.” In addition to protecting the skin fro...

Jada Alexander has a deep reverence for the ocean. Her personal journey as a young Black woman has left her with emotional scars and is how she came to understand that the ocean is more than a place to catch a wave. Jada is the founder of the Daybreak Beach Club. Daybreak teaches participants to enjoy, respect and protect the ocean while discovering that the ocean provides a path to healing and pe...

Indira Brook, the latest guest on the Wo(men) Mind the Water Artivist Series podcast, is a manager at Roatán Marine Park. The marine park is a non-profit dedicated to the protection of the Caribbean island located about 40 miles off the northern coast of Honduras. Indira’s work for the Roatán Marine Park involves working with people to protect coral reefs, mangroves and other marine species. Roatá...

Kathryn Pharr is the leader of a global community of women who focus on issues related to water. Kathryn believes that water is a source for female empowerment. She founded the Community of Women in Water as a global network which now counts more than 1000 members. Their focus is empowering women who work professionally in WASH (i.e., water, sanitation and hygiene). The Community of Women in Water...