{"id":13526,"date":"2018-10-22T10:57:31","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T10:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dmampo.org\/?page_id=13526"},"modified":"2023-05-18T18:43:20","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T18:43:20","slug":"speaker-rue-mapp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dmampo.org\/speaker-rue-mapp\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Rue Mapp"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"\"<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Speaker Rue Mapp: “Where Black People and Nature Meet”<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Rue Mapp recalls hearing police helicopters outside her office in downtown Oakland, Calif., when racial tensions broke out in the streets in the days following the grand jury decision not to charge the police officer involved in the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. She felt she had to do something \u2013 but what?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mapp, the founder of Outdoor Afro who spoke in Des Moines on Nov. 2 as part of The Tomorrow Plan Speaker Series \u2013 decided to organize a hike into a redwood forest in Oakland Hills. There, she found African Americans felt safe to share perspectives and ideas, and they came out feeling resolved about the actions they would take within their families, workplaces, and communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe were doing what African Americans have always known we can do, and that is to lay down our burdens, down by the riverside,\u201d Mapp recalled in a recent TEDx Talk. \u201cI realized that nature is not only a teacher \u2013 it is a healer.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Connecting people to nature is the central theme to Mapp\u2019s calling, and it will be the focus of her talk in Greater Des Moines. She started Outdoor Afro as a blog in 2009, and it has since grown to a national, not-for-profit network of outdoors leaders who train volunteers to connect people with nature. Outdoor Afro is active in 30 states and has reached more than 35,000 people through its events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mapp\u2019s talk was timely for Greater Des Moines. Leaders of Capital Crossroads, a vision plan for Central Iowa, have committed to using a diversity, equity and inclusion lens when envisioning, designing and implementing projects across the region. One of those projects aims to reconnect people to the metro\u2019s 150 miles of rivers and creeks as envisioned in the Greater Des Moines Water Trails and Greenways Master Plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Tomorrow Plan Speaker Series is an implementation strategy of The Tomorrow Plan, a plan for the sustainable development of Greater Des Moines. For more information, please visit dmampo.org\/the-tomorrow-plan\/speaker-series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Speaker Rue Mapp: “Where Black People and Nature Meet” Rue Mapp recalls hearing police helicopters outside her office in downtown Oakland, Calif., when racial tensions broke out in the streets in the days following the grand jury decision not to… <\/p>\n

<\/svg> Read More Speaker Rue Mapp<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13527,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[62],"tags":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/dmampo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Website-art-Mapp-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmampo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13526"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmampo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmampo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmampo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmampo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13526"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dmampo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24075,"href":"https:\/\/dmampo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13526\/revisions\/24075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmampo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmampo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmampo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmampo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}