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Episode 29 with Ruby Mateja, skateboarder, co-founder of Free Movement Skateboarding and Goodpush Officer at Skateistan. 

Together we discussed her growing up in England, finding skateboarding as a young adult, her first experiences in various non-profits and charities such as Palestine-based organization Skatepal where she volunteered for a few months as a skate coach and met Will Ascott, with whom she founded Free Movement Skateboarding, a non-profit organization based in Athens, Greece which aims to build community on and off the board, working for the Good Push Alliance, an initiative by Skateistan to support and share knowledge among social skateboarding projects worldwide…  

• Intro (00:13) 
• Growing up and finding skateboarding (01:13) 
• Meath epilepsy charity (10:16) 
• Meeting Will Ascott at Skatepal in Palestine (12:30) 
• Starting Free Movement Skateboarding (22:13) 
• First sessions (30:51) 
• Translators (37:21) 
• Evolution up to nowadays (39:46) 
• Pushing Boarders 2019 in Malmö, refugee crisis in Greece (48:33) 
• Writing for Skateism, FMS blog, working for Women skate the world (52:25) 
• The Good Push Alliance (58:27) 
• Increasing number of skate related social projets (01:05:30) 
• What’s next? (01:08:49) 
• Most valuable lesson learned from skateboarding (01:10:50) 
• Friends questions (01:12:11)
• Conclusion (01:30:36)  

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