027 - Working to include All The Elements in the Great Outdoors with Soraya Abdel-Hadi

Soraya Abdel-Hadi is an award-winning writer, artist, and advocate for women and diversity in the UK outdoors.

In this episode you get to enjoy the conversation around:

• Lockdown fatigue
• Paying attention to the seasons.
• All the Elements
• Building community to create diversity in the outdoors
• Creativity to bring about change
• Barriers to equitable access to the outdoors
• Fear - internal and external
• The dominate image of the Great Outdoors is male
• Operating from a place of privilege
• Mixed heritage backgrounds 
• Getting an outdoors fix with horses and climbing
• Working with women and sustainability through a holistic lens
• How the Black Live Matter movement applies to the UK 
• How to keep hoping and moving forward for change

 

Bio:

Soraya Abdel-Hadi is an award-winning writer, artist, and advocate for women and diversity in the UK outdoors. She believes in taking a holistic approach to making the world a better place, and writes about sustainability, nature and adventure travel. Soraya is Lonely Planet Sustainable Storyteller 2021 and founder of the All The Elements – a community working to increase diversity in the UK outdoors. She is mixed race - white British / black Sudanese.

 

Personal website: www.soraya.earth

Socials: @sorayaearth on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook

All The Elements website (including free directory and resources): www.alltheelements.co

Socials: @alltheelements_ on Twitter and Instagram

 

All the Elements next social will take place on 3rd June, and details can be found here.

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