June 30, 2022

We’ve explored many ways to play in the redwoods this season. What resonates most, beyond any single activity, is the relationships formed and fortified—with one another, with the outdoors, and with one another in the outdoors. In this season’s finale, beneath the redwoods in Oakland, Grace Anderson (she/her) and Mo Asebiomo (they/she) embody Black joy (spontaneous laughter alert!), the expansive meaning of playing outside (cloud watching or an adrenaline-pumping bike ride, choose your own adventure), and the powerful affirmation that comes from affinity and resilient friendships. Let’s play!

Music and sound design by Nhu Nguyen and Anni Feng.

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Grace Anderson (she/her) is a dreamer, networking weaver, and joy enthusiast based in Oakland, CA.

Mo Asebiomo (they/she) is an outdoor educator who loves cloud watching and sleeping under the Sun. They are the Camp Co-Director at Abundant Beginnings, a collectively run, Black-led community education and empowerment initiative.

Emily Harwitz, a multiracial Asian American based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Emily Harwitz, host of season two of the League’s “I’ll Go If You Go” podcast. Photo by Davita Pytowski, courtesy of Emily Harwitz.

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Emily Harwitz (she/her) is a multimedia science writer and photographer whose work focuses on the environment and our connection to it. She tells stories that foster community, provoke curiosity, and inspire a sense of deeper connection with the natural world around us.

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