Episode 70: Danielle Williams Tell A Different Story

October 31, 2019
Danielle Williams is the Founder of DiversifyOutdoors.com and the Senior Editor of blogging platform Melanin Base Camp. Danielle graduated from Harvard in 2008 and spent the next 10 years in the U.S. Army with combat deployments in Iraq and the Philippines. In 2018, she founded Diversify Outdoors, a coalition of outdoor entrepreneurs, activists, influencers and non-profits leveraging the power of social networks to promote racial and gender equity.

#DiversifyOutdoors™ has been used over 44k times on Instagram and DiversifyOutdoors.com is the proud host of the Outdoor CEO Diversity Pledge and it’s 68+ signatories. Her award winning blog, melaninbasecamp.com is also a powerful voice for diversity in the outdoors. Over the past two years, it’s grown to an monthly readership of 17k and an active community of 24k on Instagram where #melaninbasecamp has been used over 27k times. Recently, Melanin Base Camp successfully raised over $35,000 in order to produce a short film about black Canadian climbing prodigy Sabrina Chapman. Danielle has been featured in Vice, Outside Magazine, SELF, Backpacker, and The Globe and Mail.

Why I Don’t Write About Being Disable In The Outdoors, Danielle Williams
Stop Making Movies About White Guys Doing Cool Shit, Anaheed Saatchi
I Said I Wasn’t Outdoorsy…But I Lied, Nadia Mercado
Disabled Hikers
Diversify Outdoors
Sabrina Chapman
Melanin Base Camp
United States Parachute Association
Project#19 Women’s Skydiving Network
Kareemah Batts Founder Adaptive Climbing
Bethany Lebewitz Founder Brown Girls Climb
Shelma Jun Founder Flash Foxy
Ambreen Tariq Founder Brown People Camping
Color the Crag
Abby Dione – 1st African American woman to own climbing gym in US
Teresa Baker Founder Outdoor CEO Diversity Pledge

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