Welcome to I’ll Go If You Go, a Save the Redwoods League podcast.
On I’ll Go If You Go, we have thought-provoking conversations with emerging environmental leaders from diverse backgrounds who explore and work in the outdoors. By examining how we think, work, and play in the outdoors, we’re building community and illuminating how Californians from all walks of life experience nature and conservation, in the redwoods and beyond.
I’ll go if you go — because when we explore together in community, the experience is all the more powerful.
Music by Nhu Nguyen and Anni Feng.
Episodes
Season 4Season 3Season 2Season 1
Season 4
Welcome to Season 4! This season, we’re exploring the different kinds of jobs you can do in the redwood and redwoods parks. In this first episode, producer and host of season 1, Leslie Parra, interviews the current host Emily Harwitz. They talk about Emily’s love for nature, what she does for work when she’s not hosting I’ll Go If You Go, and how she’s approached her career in science and environmental storytelling.
About the host
Emily Harwitz (she/her) is a journalist, writer, and filmmaker who works at the nexus of science and art to catalyze social and environmental change. Trained as a scientist and journalist, she also draws from her experience working in conservation and the outdoors to tell stories that inform, inspire, and rebuild connection with the beauty of nature we’re all part of.
Season 3
- Conservation: now in technicolor!
- Have no fear, the gals are here!
- The Girl with the Redwood Tattoos
- Out with Outlandish!
- Trek long and prosper
- To Build a Trail—and the community that follows
About the host
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.
Season 2
- The fungus among us
- Nothing wrong with having a tree as a friend
- Bird is the word
- “Skate slow and live”
- When the river meets the sea
- Brown is a beautiful color
About the host of season 2
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.
Season 1
- Raised by the Oakland redwoods
- Rooting yourself in community and place
- If I could walk with the animals, talk with the animals
- A hike a week keeps your well-being at peak
- How to stand up (like a redwood)
- Come as you are (smells like team spirit)
About the host of Season 1
Leslie Parra (she/her) connects diverse communities to redwood and sequoia forests. She has garnered significant recognition for her leadership in community civic action, STEM and environmental education, and diversity, equity, and inclusion work over the past 15 years. Her professional calling is to cultivate enrichment programs with multicultural and international perspectives, driven by and in collaboration with communities. During her free time, she loves to go hiking with her partner Eric and their dog Mishqui (which means “sweet” in Quichua, the native language of Ecuador—a place she calls home).
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