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Podcast: Rising Tide: The Ocean Podcast
Episode: Rising Tide #53 – A Wahine Surfs for Change
Description: We talk with Wahine Project director Dionne Ybarra who, raised in an inland Mexican American Farm worker family, discovered surfing at 38. Stoked but concerned the sport did not have a lot of people like her, she launched the Wahine – surfer girl – Project that has taught thousands of young girls - and some boys and adults - from Monterey to Mexico to Gaza and beyond how to overcome their fears and surf for themselves and the Ocean. Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This po...