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work
Hopeful by Nature travels the world to find the educators, parents, organizers, and community leaders who are connecting young people to the natural world through outdoor learning in ways that build something real. Each episode is a conversation with someone who refused to wait for permission — and built something anyway.
Hosted by Scott Shepherd, founder of Wildward Institute.
LATEST EPISODE
Teaching STEM in Spanish: Reclaiming Language as a Superpower | Ciencia Para Todos
with cofounders Christian Trujillo, Diana Martinez, and Odalis Avalos of Ciencia Para Todos
ABOUT THE EPISODE
It Was Never a Disadvantage – Bilingual Science, Belonging, and Reclaiming Language
How three volunteers turned a flyer at Cal Poly Humboldt into Ciencia Para Todos — a bilingual STEM community built on the idea that Spanish is a superpower, not a setback.
I learned Spanish the long way — through travel, through classrooms, through years of catching maybe eighty percent of a joke and nodding along anyway. I've never once had to defend my right to speak it. So when Odalis Avalos told me she spent years believing the opposite about her own first language, I wanted to understand how that happens — and how you undo it.
