Woods & Wilds: The Podcast

This week our hosts Kimala Luna from Dogwood Alliance and Elizabeth Lashay from SlayTheMic talk with artist Allison Maria Rodriguez about her artwork and how she creates immersive experiential spaces in order to challenge conventional ways of understanding the world.

This week our hosts Kimala Luna from Dogwood Alliance and Elizabeth Lashay from SlayTheMic speak with the author of The Unlikely Thru-Hiker , Derick Lugo. Derick not only talks with us about his adventures on the AT and how the origin story of his nickname, but also his love of writing and what led him to write a book in the first place.

This week our hosts Kimala Luna from Dogwood Alliance and Elizabeth Lashay from SlayTheMic speak with Erniko Brown. Erniko is the founder of the nonprofit Organized Uplifting Resources (OURS) . Erniko talks with us about her Grandmother, learning and teaching patience within her community, and ways we can stay resiliently loving with our community and with ourselves.

For this episode, we speak with Mary Annaïse Heglar, storyteller, climate activist, author, and co-creator of the Hot Take Podcast and newsletter that examines the state of the climate crisis by taking a critical look at the media. For this episode we hear from Mary about her work at the intersection of climate and racial justice, her love of writing, her experience as a Black climate activist, an...

On this week's podcast, we welcome Indy Srinath . Indy is an avid homesteader, forager, educator, herbalist, and food justice activist. She is currently working in LA managing an urban farm on Skid Row. She shares with us her story entitled, "A Forest As Black As Me."

In Episode 4, we interviewed Dogwood’s own Marketing Director, Amanda Rodriguez. Amanda also happens to be a published author and the director of the award-winning documentary Stories Happen in Forests. Join us as we explore her creative inspirations, the power of story and forests, and the many moving and inspirational interviews she captured for the documentary. 

In this episode of Woods  & Wilds: The Podcast, hiker, The Blackalachian "Daniel White",  shares his journey on how he spreads Love and Light by connecting with the outdoors.   To follow The Blackalachian's journey click here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsqMJa5ANHcEdU0Vu8rdC5A

In this episode of Woods  & Wilds: The Podcast, writer, Ali McGhee shares the story of her forest. Join us for this tale of imagination, creativity, loss, and whimsy all woven together.

Woods & Wilds Podcast is intertwining the roots of music and healing power of nature through stories.  In the first Episode, Dogwood Alliance's, Kimala Luna and Elizabeth Garland of SlayTheMic sit down to interview Dr. Thomas Rashad Easley.  Easley is the assistant dean of community and inclusion at Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Dr. Thomas Rashad Easley’s grandparents ta...