Hear Intersectional Eco-Activist Ayana Young on Pod Save the People + More Live Events This Summer!

This Week: Hear For The Wild Founder Ayana Young on Crooked Media’s
Pod Save the People
This Summer: Hear Ayana Speak at Lightning in a Bottle,
Oregon Country Fair + More!

This week, For The Wild’s Ayana Young made her Crooked Media debut as a featured guest on Pod Save the People, just in time for Earth Day. To hear Ayana discuss her origins as an activist, overlooked topics in environmentalism and more with, host DeRay McKesson, tune in here!
Catch For The Wild live at one of Ayana’s upcoming speaking events up and down the West Coast! Following this week’s keynote address and screening of her film, When Old Growth Ends at Humboldt State University, Ayana will be speaking at California’s Lightning in a Bottle Festival, alongside Vandanda Shiva and Paul Stamets, exploring how to break the chains of domestication and human supremacy. In Oregon later this summer, Ayana will be teaching at the Spirit Weavers Gathering and speaking at  Oregon Country Fair. For more – see below!
With over 100  episodes, host Ayana Young has spoken with experts on topics ranging from wildfire ecology to  toxic masculinity to the environmental impact of funerals – and there’s more to come! Four years running, the podcast has racked up over 475,000 total downloads and over 1,000,000 listens by an eager audience, ready for episodes featuring guests like Green Party candidate Jill Stein, the “godmother of American Herbalism” Rosemary Gladstar, and musician and activist Buffy Sainte-Marie. Get a sneak peek here!

CATCH AYANA YOUNG ON THE ROAD THIS SUMMER:
MAY 8-13 – LIGHTNING IN A BOTTLE FESTIVAL – BAKERSFIELD, CA
Panel with Vandanda Shiva and Paul Stamets
JUNE 6-10, 13-17 – SPIRIT WEAVERS GATHERING – CAVE JUNCTION, OR
Special podcast episode + Panel on Biophilia Embodied with Pussy Powerhouse + Activist consultations (one on one chats with Ayana)
JULY 12-14 – OREGON COUNTRY FAIR – VENETA, OR

Keynote speech
MORE ON FOR THE WILD
For The Wild is a grassroots, millennial-run organization that coalesces multi-platform education and media, direct action campaigns, and bioregional land-based initiatives to protect disappearing wild places. At its core, the spirit of the organization is a union between tangible land-based renewal, wilderness conservation, storytelling, and education rooted in a paradigm shift away from human supremacy towards deep ecology.

For The Wild was founded by Ayana Young; while an ecology student at Columbia University during the time of Occupy Wall Street, she co-created the Environmental Working Group to help orient the movement to the realities of a suffering planet. Her work led her around the country, studying ecosystems, meeting and learning from fellow Earth warriors, leading to the conception of For The Wild.
The organization can be broken into three intersecting parts: storytelling as grassroots activism, forest restoration and ecology, and coalition and community building. For The Wild’s 1 Million Redwoods Project, which was the most-backed farm project in Kickstarter history, facilitates boots-on-the-ground activism working with groundbreaking technology. Planting redwood trees and creating Biodiversity Enhancement Test Plots (BETP) to foster a new model of  integrative forestry, while cultivating the  environments that the trees need to thrive, including working with essential fungal allies, companion plants, and the guidance of grandmother trees. Meanwhile,  the For The Wild podcast, interviews guest experts every week on subjects ranging from wildfire ecology to social justice.
Ayana has also branched into filmmaking, with her film “When Old Growth Ends” which premiered at SXSW 2018. The film documents  Ayana and For The Wild on their journey with a group of women north of the Tongass National Forest in Alaska gathering footage, conducting interviews, and building relationships with those on the frontlines working to protect the Tongass – a forest and entire ecosystem threatened by the logging industry.
No matter the project, For The Wild strives to be a voice for the silenced.
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