"Our core mandate is to raise resources for programs serving young women. Girls and young women, and connecting them to nature, to outdoor adventure and outdoor education opportunities. Where I live in California in the Bay Area, and other places, it can be easy to loose sight of the fact that women, and particularly girls, remain very, very inequitably served with those sort of opportunities." -- Alison Wright, co-founder of The Cairn Project
Imagining Community spotlights The Cairn Project, for girls and young woman, expanding outdoor access by supporting community-based wilderness and outdoor education groups around the country through a small grants program.
We open our segment with audio excerpts from the recent youtube video "Would you like ice with that?" produced by outdoor adventurer Annie Le Outside who spent the entire month of February, 2021 immersing herself in the frigid waters near her home in Scotland to raise money for The Cairn Project. Followed by audio from a 2018 video by co-founder Sarah Castle as she trains for her Collegiate Peaks Loop hike, leading us into an Imagining Community phone interview with The Cairn Project's other co-founder, Alison Wright.
