EVELYNN ESCOBAR
Creator, changemaker and founder of the intersectional women’s hiking club Hike Clerb
Los Angeles, California
One of my first experiences outdoors was at Zion National Park. (It) truly blew the lid off of my own healing journey. I was like: Everyone needs to be out here experiencing this! But I remember going on one of the most popular trails and everyone looking at me like an “other.” My ancestors are just a few miles south. It didn’t make sense to me. In the world I see for my daughter, we are all living in community instead of just in relation to each other. The Indigenous people of these lands are governing and overseeing these spaces, and Black and brown people feel empowered to get out there and to take up space. I would call Hike Clerb, an intersectional women’s hiking club, a place for healing.
Amandla Baraka is a filmmaker and photographer inspired by the revolutionaries, artists and poets who raised her. Her work establishes an understanding of humanity through an intimate and empathetic lens.
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