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they access peoples most personal data and asked what is being done to regulate the flow of sensitive information. under the cover of coven ana jazeera ah, i anthony ok. there are some sports which were to p known as sports in our white atmosphere, white communities that have been broken for by people of color. i'm being transformed forever, gulf tennis, ice skating. but when we talk about snow small, it's a mounting sports, not so much, but there are some people today. i want you to meet. what aiming to change that. let's meet some growing up into the sport of skin. the thing that brought me to scan was this feeling of freedom. never before had i ever felt

something that made me feel so free as i did on the mountain. i could go explore certain areas. i could go jump off a cliff or in the park. i could express myself the way i wanted to, and i felt never more free when i was on my pair of skis. i am the 1st person of color to be sponsored by skews art and what snowboarding means to me is having fun going out there and doing my thing and doing what i love. when asked, what is snowboarding? mean to me, snowboarding is sort of a crazy addiction to the snowy outdoors. i feel like snowboarding for the black community has a really great chance of succeeding and becoming not just a minority in the sport, but really being able to pay the way for the future so much progress that what i guess hello or no, not emily lamont, they really get to see, you know,

please introduce yourself trust, stream audience. tell them who you are, what you do. hi everyone. my name is dana, i am one of the founders of my law and not know as a tribal community all about bringing college the mountain. we encourage back that minority in neighborhood and some of them the best time and we create it and time, and it's been made in the u. k and of in and around london. all right, lovely to have you. hello, emily. introduce yourself. try international view s hi, my name is emily novia. i am a real masters candidate at the school of environment where i focus on climate policy. and i spend time working as a professional snowboarder and just had are some come out the approach. fantastic. lovely to have you the most, introduce yourself to have us who may not know who you are and what you do. i am

the mind joseph white. i am an artist and designer and i live in park city, utah, where i snowboard quite often, and hike and bike and just enjoy the outdoors. i would love to hear your snowboarding, your skiing stories, people of color around the world. i know you do it. i know you do it. here is our comment section join in our comment section. you got questions for i guess you're very welcome to be part of today. so looking forward to having you, when i'm thinking about your 1st time, your 1st time on snow, actually it wasn't snow, but the 1st time you attempted to ski what was that like? what made you want to do it? so i started in my twenties and i decided to try a lesson on drive in london and it's not played, but it was amazing. it was fun and i enjoyed it. and at that point i wasn't able to go in and teach it. but i'm, you know, feed is late,

so i decided i'm going to go to china and the maids and time i had on this was kept me going back every year and said to me, it is fun of all and down the fun of trying something new going down different and say it's it's, you know, was, you know, i met him, you can keep coming back. nothing. no mom, that 1st time that you ever i will put on a snowboard or you put on skis. you remember back then? what was it night? yeah, just like when i didn't start until i was in my twenties, it's something that i wanted to do as a child and i see some of my friends in school come back on mondays after a weekend of snowing up skiing and they'd have their ski tags hanging from their jackets and i want to try that and wasn't. so i was in my twenties when i did some friends brought me to the mountain and i was just hooked immediately. any we have some pictures of you. it's

a beautiful slide show. when did you know that you would get that? nope, just okay, but really good. well, you know, i consider myself a, a lifelong student. so i'm always learning and there's always more skills to pick up, especially especially as you head into the back country. but i, i have to sort of back what both one, no, not in the mont said. what drew me in was just like the curiosity, the play. just getting to, you know, try hard things and fall and get back up in this sort of somewhat, in some circumstances controlled manner. so it's just, yeah, it's just a really incredible sport. go ahead. i'm ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, no, i think what resonates with all of us is just the freedom and enjoyment of being out there in the mountains. and it's really kind of like no other experience in life, no matter what's going on in your life at that time, you can escape,

you can find joy, you can find stress release and just have a, have a blast, why you're doing it. so i think it's one of these things that we feel we feel blessed and privilege to do. i'm just looking here. we're no, no. you're instagram account for mountain. you look extraordinary. look at that picture. you look in your element. i remember the 1st time that my school announced that they were going to do a skiing trip. this was in south london, and i had to do a whole project for my know, jerry and parents who had never seen snow. and i remember when i was 13 years old, i drew skis and these are skis and then this is snow. and this is what you do on skis on snow. i oversee it was persuasive because they coughed up the money to allow me to go skiing and i've been skiing ever since. i was 13 years old, but there is a cultural gap there. now i know everyone's got nigerian parents that need to be

convinced with an a river project, but that is a cultural gap there between what is seen to be a sport that is not black people and people of color and a sport that for you opinions. so for white people were now know how did your family handle you been sky. yeah. we have similar backgrounds there. my thought. yeah. and so i know all about it. you know. yeah. and so i know it all about how, you know, in terms of like having to convince them that it was normal to prepare yourself down about it, you know, sometimes 50 miles out. and but like i said, it actually tell them i was very, i just did it and i came back. i told them all the been and now she even what's the company. and so i definitely recognize that there's a lot of stereotypes and they're not even in the back community about what it's like to be like in the 1st now i think people, you know,

i like it and they're like, really call what isn't it like we don't do that with and so i think there's a lot of stereotypes within the community or african parents or another game. and people have been being dangerous or, you know, too expensive. it was only for white people and they said it's, you know, it's not the case. 3 people sit here to log in and so i would say i definitely understand what needs to break down the barriers. oh my, my direct, you just tell me he snows both. we've got a little black and brown club going on right here. and it will see kind of going on here. i'm just looking at my laptop, emily and these figures really say pretty much everything about the u. s. people of color who sky. so 87.5 percent, a white. then 6 percent asian, 5 percent latino, latina one plus 1.5 percent black,

one with another 7 percent indigenous. you will see that this doesn't add up to 100 because some people are more than one category. ok. but the point is that here, all the majority of people who ski and then not people of color. emily, how is how does that impact you when you are on the stripes? yeah, i would say it empowers me to be present and take up space. you know, it's no accident that skiing and snow's birth are predominantly white. just due to the pattern of settlement that occurred in the us with red lining and force migration and exclusion from natural areas and parks. and so it really is about going and reclaiming space. and i'm sure lamont, you can probably agree 100 percent 100 percent. i look at those figures

as black, where 14 percent of the population, the united states. and when i have gone to mount over the years i, i kind of quite frankly, accepted the fact that it was white majority sport. and then i was amongst the super minority in that space. but after a while they started question that and instead of just accepting it, figure, what can i, what do i have to say about it? what can i do about it? and that's why i created the skiing and color collection. and i'm pleased with the reaction. there's been a lot of people i didn't realize were having this conversation prior to me painting the pieces that i have and i'm super happy that i can be just one voice in this narrative, like emily said to reclaim spaces, to re normalize and reconditioned what, where we think we belong or where others feel like we belong. just to change that

narrative and flip the status quo. and what i'm going to show some of your pictures off here and i'll show you some more in a moment. so the, the picture just to the side of me here, this is you reclaiming places. they said so that it's ok for you to ski if you're black or snowboard, if you're black, a beautiful one piece here, a sister in a one piece. and then this picture here of the jet skiing, it looks like a photograph. it's so beautiful. so this is some of your work where you're showing off images that people don't normally get to see when the on the slopes are not so much. what difference does that make ammonia you think? well, like it's often said, if you see it, you can be, i'm a strong believer in representation. my role is to exercise representation through my artwork. it's going to take a lot of voices to change the narrative. i've been told by many people as they've

discovered me in this space, it's a long road, and i me the mediately let them know that that's fine. black abroad people are used to long roads. i'm not going anywhere right now. i'm in a place where i'm promoting the narrative of, of changing what is normal and outdoor spaces, mountain spaces in nature and whatnot. and one day i hope to be just presenting images that are maintaining diversity that's lacking. so quite frankly, if we can invite black brown people into nature more often, nature will take care of us and will in turn take care of nature. i'm just going to show you. go ahead emily. yes, i agree. yeah. you know, as well, mine is saying this is about developing a connection with your inner self as well as the natural world. you know, it is really important. black and brown. people make up

a significant part of the population globally. and you know, we're in the midst of a climate crisis. we need to start building connection and reclaiming the space because this is important to our survival. yeah. emily, moving, we're in a film that come out now. perfect for ski season, which is bringing together a little people from different backgrounds and diversity is a different diversity. say some people may have challenges in terms of physical challenges and just like a whole spectrum of people that you don't always see. maybe you don't notice on the slopes, the films coffee approach, hey, the little kit for the can see what's going on it. i think i just need like a little bit more belief in myself and that i would have it. and i feel like that's one of those moments bruce like i can do the thing,

i can try the thing. but if i don't actually believe that i'm landed, i feel like the nar can tell. oh mm emily that she makes. i could see a smiling blankly. yes, that's me. really frightened. it costs a lot to hit the slopes. so maybe it's not just about, well, it's a cultural thing. maybe it's just because it's really expensive. right, right. there are many, many socio economic barriers to the space snowboarding snow, sports are incredibly expensive. and so, you know, when we're thinking about how to increase participation i, there needs to be

a lot of attention paid to this in terms of creating opportunities to, you know, bring here to non profits. just continuing to grow that space. there's so many non profits working in this space right now with disadvantaged youth people of color, so many different affinity groups and identities. and yeah, i mean, that is a much bigger problem than, than just snow sports, right? it's a microcosm of all of the issues that we're experiencing in the, in the, in the us. and i think globally, yeah, i definitely agree the emilita, i think, even, you know, outside it's like can be, it's quite expensive. you know, go on a ski trip and if anyone can sort of, you know, help in terms of making sure the entry point is a little bit lower, wherever it's level where it gave it you have to buy. you can definitely get more people into skin as they bought. and if you don't come from sort of in

a certain backgrounds of the black or not, it's very difficult to navigate. you know, as a boarding trip, i'm just got sure and gone, you know, the more you got 1st and i'll bring in some tweet like to go go ahead. sure, sure. i just want to say we can build those bridges. there are barriers right? there can be financial barriers, geographic barriers, cultural barriers, my family growing up, we could have afforded a ski trip or 2. but it wasn't culturally anything we ever had a conversation about my parents growing up in depression era and in baltimore, in brooklyn. it's just not a conversation. let's go to the slopes and ski wasn't something that was normal in my household at all, but it was somebody who i was that i was attracted to from afar. but you know, i am part of the, for in some part of the sky, utah inclusion committee, and we're starting to build some of these bridges. right. there are many other

nonprofits that are bringing kids, which is very important and families to the slopes. right. so there are opportunities fund raisers, i go on with these nonprofits that can help build these bridges, and we can bring families and kids to the slopes, 4 or 5 times in a season, that plants, the seeds. right to get people hooked. right. those who will be hooked, get them hooked. and, and little by little we start to build the diversity inclusion. gonna show you guess a couple of tweets sort of supporting what you've been saying about the, the cost of skiing and you come up with a couple of solutions around that cost of sky. mario's watching, she says the cost of tickets, policies, equipment, as kids grow, you need to replace their skis and boots. there's also risk of injury. having good insurance is practically a prerequisite. oh, good thought bad mario. i've so and then says, yes, it is not cheap but a suit power back to the teeth. a physical fitness,

socializing and mental well being. i've not yet found anything better. and if you like to have tough size like fly is that don't wiggle one down. so that's all it really is like i and so i is one day on this. if i haven't persuaded you yet, perhaps this might, this is a little a trailer for mountain wall. it's a travel company that is known as set up to take people of color from the u. k. skag. let's take a look. oh, when i renew i i need no no vacancy or something up to place both, you know, really rural by bring to the music or no,

i mean we're, we're no how was it? how was it going? i know how it is not helping. none of us are forgotten covered, and that is a major issue in terms of getting on the slopes and, and doing the things that we love to do outdoors. so that aside the idea, the concept from mount dora. how's that going? so we launched shortly just before you know, the clever pandemic hit that we were very lucky to have office and check just before we all went in to look down and, and because it hasn't been great and me, i work at the doctor and they have been in the and you know, the thick of it, but in terms of, you know, travel and knowing what you can plan for and what car is quite difficult moments. and even recently as you can see, some of the travel plans, it's still changed. and in terms of what we strive, boys, we look for companies who are taxable and with in a consummation and kind of

a big trip. and a lot of people have been accommodating and, but at the same time as much as we want to stay safe and as much as we went to make sure that we're having a great time. and this is difficult to know and, and but we do make sure that if any consolations do more, i guess will be funded as much as he has. that's good to know. and i've got a couple of questions for you. this is going to be speed round cuz i got so many questions. i want to share the move all okay. all right to natasha says what was it like on your 1st ski trip? we're no, no. seeing that it was a completely new sport for you. fairly quickly when oh no, go ahead. so it was quite so said it was quite gary and, but i enjoyed every moment of the android balling. i enjoyed the people that i'm and you know, the company that i met on the slates and some of them are my friends today. all right, tattle tale says we need more information getting to our communities and breaking the stereotypes. lamont, you handle that one. i think it starts with the mountains themselves,

people who own and operate the mountain spaces are kind of, i feel like at the top of the pyramid. and once these mountain owners and operators start to do more with their marketing, do more with their hiring. do more with their on mountain and off mountain presence of black and brown people. right, that's going to set the tone for brands for the main street of mountain cities and outdoor communities to say, hey, if the owners and operators of these spaces are intentionally inclusive and we can follow suit, i think until they make long lasting moves in perpetuity. we're still going to treat inclusion as a trend, right, we're still going to treat diversity as a trend. and you know, skin color is not a trend. emily and where we, where we see it lacking shot we need to, we need to make most make i had are nodding. yeah. you are spot on the mom and i

think this extends to the outdoor industry as a whole. you know, i have to be honest, my career really took off after the summer matter and after george floyd. and so that, that is, that's really hard to hold. that's, you know, and it shouldn't be the case and it should not be a trend. absolutely not. a man what to bring to ski as into our conversation because i think they take us to where do we go next? i know you all 3 of you do love being on the slopes. it is not your job to bring diversity to the slopes. that is not your job, your job is to just enjoy and found out that maybe you can get people to do it to go to introduce you to then g ski areas. hi, i'm benjamin alexander. i am about to become to make his 1st of alpine ski racer to represent the country at the next island games in beijing 2022. we need to get more

people of color into the outdoors, into skiing, into, into sports. and to do that, we need more people of color to be successful role models in the sport to prove that the sport is for everyone that everyone can have fun and enjoy the outdoors. no matter where you're from. we need the tiger woods of skiing, i believe. the reason why if we don't see more people falling in my footsteps is the barrier to entry. so i feel like as a whole the ski community needs to come together and put together, learn to ski programs and make it more accessible for, you know, people of lower income levels to be able to participate in this amazing sport. i can't wait. see the tiger woods or a one of the williams sisters of snowboarding or skiing. it's it's, it's bound to happen. no more thoughts. and i said, oh yeah, i just say yeah, yeah. power. good. yeah, it is my. yeah, yeah,

yeah. and i live there out. yeah. i knew i yes, it needs to change. there are a lot of sterile ah, black and brown snow borders and scares wear out here. all right, thank you. thank you for setting up our future guest. right. get debt. yes. on to the own to the stream. so we make it so that everybody knows who these names are, they can watch and follow them, support them. thank you so much. guess it's been such a pleasure and we'll just show you on my laptop. this is we're known as company mountain while you can follow it on instagram. emily is say here coles in the wild . great handle. and look at love all just doing his thing. this is really nice to see this as well. all right, so everybody thanks very what very much for your questions on youtube. your comments were no net. emily lamont, it's been a pleasure talking to you bringing diverse tea to the mountain slopes around the well, thanks for watching us the next time take. ah,

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