Episode 1: Monserrat Alvarez Matehuala

Your Healing Nature

Monserrat is an outdoor educator, community organizer, climber, poet and danzante. In 2016, she was a part of the national founding team of Brown Girls Climb, LLC, a women of color-led business focused on centering the leadership of women of color climbers in the outdoors. Monserrat is a sponsored athlete with Outdoor Research and was recently awarded the 2021 Emerging Leader Award by Outdoor Retailer. Monserrat’s work is focused on connecting to land, ancestry, and BIPOC stories of resilience in the outdoors and beyond. In this episode, she shares her root story, healing via rock climbing, her epic summit of Iztaccíhuatl, and all things familia y comunidad. Join us around this digital campfire!

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Photo of Monserrat Alvarez Matehuala courtesy of Janelle Paciencia @janelletakesphotos

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The North Face: Walls are for Climbing

Monserrat Alvarez Matehuala & the Call of the Wall

https://youtu.be/qAH8tZ7sWek

Outdoor Research: Escaladora (Short Film)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBGyplC6Ujs

The Legend of Popocatepetl & Iztaccíhuatl: A Love Story

https://www.inside-mexico.com/the-legend-of-popocatepetl-iztaccihuatl/

Books

Pam Muñoz Ryan, Esperanza Rising

Kimberlee Crenshaw et al., Critical Race Theory: The Critical Writings that Formed the Movement