Women Mind the Water
Episodes
Indigenous Hawaiian marine science factors in humility and community - Kaileia Duriano
07 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Kaileia Duriano, an Indigenous Hawaiian trained in cultural practices as well as academic marine biology, discusses both Indigenous and academic p...
Susan Gardner
21 May 2026
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Susan Gardner, Director of the Ecosystem Division for the United Nations Environmental Program, negotiates global environmental treaties to protect ...
Preparing Sea Otter Pups to Live in the Wild - Megan Smylie
21 Apr 2026
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Megan Smiley, Sea Otter Program Manager, Aquarium of the Pacific, discusses the Sea Otter Surrogacy Program, a program rehabilitating rescued sea ot...
Bringing the Edges of Earth to Corporate Decision-makers Andi Cross
02 Apr 2026
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Andi Cross of Edges of Earth works with individuals and communities to advance nature-based solutions. She brings these perspectives to corporate ...
Ashley Kidd
12 Mar 2026
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Ashley Kidd cofounder and conservation program manager the Sunflower Star Laboratory in California discusses sunflower sea stars: what they are, why...
Christian Agregado of Project Lawud
15 Feb 2026
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Project Lawud is concerned with the survival of the Philippines dugong. Project Lawud was awarded the 2025 Seed Prize by the Iris Project. Christi...
Rebecca Aguilar
22 Jan 2026
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Rebecca works for the Oceanic Preservation Society, a documentary movie production company. She is currently involved with post-production work on ...
100th Anniversary Podcast with host Pam Ferris-Olson
05 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
100 episodes globally produced podcast of ocean art/ artist interview, marine conservation theme. Podcaster discusses podcast production, shares p...
Patrizia Zolano
07 Dec 2025
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Patrizia Zolano, an acclaimed Italian photographer, invites viewers to look beyond the immediacy of the image. Her series inspired by the 2019 flood...
The Art of Seeing Transforms Objects with Patrizia Zelano
07 Dec 2025
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Italian photographer Patrizia Zelano explains on the Wo(men) Mind the Water Artivist Series how she captures impactful photos. In natural light object...
Parisa Golchoubian
11 Nov 2025
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Artistic entrepreneur Parisa Golchoubian is a global nomad. She creates art, represents other artists, and has tech startup designed to solve mari...
Angèle Etoundi Essamba
21 Oct 2025
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Renown photographer Angèle Etoundi Essamba . Her camera tells story of Africa, women, and strength.
Amanda Leland
25 Sep 2025
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Amanda Leland, Exec. Dir Environmental Defense Fund, organization focused on climate change, healthy oceans, and more discusses her new book Sea C...
Sophie Maycock
01 Sep 2025
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Sophie Maycock, shark research/conservationist, website SharkSpeak , author Shark: The illustrated biography, guest Wo(men) Mind the Water Artivist ...
Stephanie Elzondo Griest
07 Aug 2025
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Stephanie Elzondo Griest, professor of Creative Nonfiction UNC Chapel Hill, author six books has traveled to 50 countries & 49 states collecting m...
Shelby Thomas
16 Jul 2025
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Shelby Thomas, Ocean Rescue Alliance International, restores marine ecosystems. The non-profit has installed more than 300 modules, some in the f...
Susan Baur
23 Jun 2025
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Susan Baur is founder of Old Ladies Against Underwater Garbage, a group of women aged 64 and up that dive for sunken garbage in ponds. Their work ...
Lily Niederhofer
06 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Lily Niederhofer, competitive swimmer/octopus advocate, conceived open-water swim, to raise awareness /money, to stop world’s first industrial-s...
Todd Medema
02 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Todd Medema, the latest guest on the Wo(men) Mind the Water Artivist Series podcast, is author of How to surf a hurricane, an scifi ecothriller. We ...
Gabriel Forestieri and Meredith Sallee, projectLIMB
03 Apr 2025
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Gabriel Forestieri and Meredith Sallee are partners in life as well as projectLIMB, their dance company that explores the relationship between hum...
Krista Shoe
14 Mar 2025
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Krista Shoe is founder of Mother of Corals, an organization based in Panama involved in coral restoration and education organization. Mother of Cora...
Arielle Moody
05 Feb 2025
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Arielle Moody worked in the beauty industry for more than 15 years, before she started her own company. Mama Sol was a collaboration between three ...
Jada Alexander
06 Jan 2025
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Jada Alexander has a deep reverence for the ocean. Her personal journey as a young Black woman left her with emotional scars. She has come to unde...
Indira Brooks
15 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Indira Brook, the latest guest on the Wo(men) Mind the Water Artivist Series podcast, is a manager at Roatán Marine Park. The marine park is a no...
Kathryn Pharr
12 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Kathryn Pharr is the leader of a global community of women who focus on issues related to water. Kathryn believes that water is a source for female ...
Lucy Hunt
25 Oct 2024
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Lucy Hunt is the founder of Sea Synergy, a Marine Awareness Research and Activity Center situated on the southwest coast of Ireland. Lucy is passi...
Lisa Tossey
18 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Storyteller and communications specialist Lisa Tossey is communications specialist for Global Fishing Watch, a nonprofit that uses cutting edge te...
Joselyn Takacs
17 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Joselyn talks about her new novel Pearce Oyster. She discusses the story's setting in Louisiana during the 2010 Deep Water Horizon oil spill disaste...
Wallace “J” Nichols
04 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
J has always been emotionally attached to water. He can go way back to his childhood where he remembers always being the first one in the water. He ...
Oriana Poindexter
16 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Artist Oriana Poindexter free dives off the California to collect seaweed and uses a mix of traditional and alternative photographic processes (ph...
Seth Glier
22 Apr 2024
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Musical artist Seth Glier is the latest guest on the Wo(men) Mind the Water Artivist Series podcast. Seth gets inspiration from the natural world an...
Manuela Zoninsein
27 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Manuela Zoninsein began as a journalist in China. While there, she witnessed a shift from reusable to single-use water bottles. The Brazilian-Amer...
Sophie Guarasci
10 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sophie Guarasci worked in the world of fashion and finance before becoming a licensed veterinary tech. She works at the Marine Mammal Center, the ...
Angela Abshier
15 Feb 2024
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Angela grew up in Wyoming and originally went college to be study journalism but pivoted to law when she heard about Napster and the potential it ...
Suzette Bousema
26 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Suzette Bousema is an emerging Netherlands-based visual artist. Suzette collaborates with environmental scientists to explore present day ecologic...
Merle Liivand
04 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Merle Liivand is an aquapreneur, plastic pollution reduction advocate, Guinness World Record holder and mermaid. The Estonian-born swimmer holds s...
Katie Horning
15 Dec 2023
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Katie Horning is a water steward based in Michigan. She serves as Chair of the River Days Festival in Midland and is a leader of the online platform...
Sarah Cameron Sunde
23 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sarah received the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship for her nine-part series 36.5/A Durational Performance with the Sea. This work has been perfo...
Bonnie Monteleone
29 Oct 2023
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Bonnie Montelone is a researcher, environmental science-educator, film maker, artist, and co-founder of the Plastic Ocean Project, a non-profit se...
Tracy Metz
06 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Tracy Metz is a journalist, author and podcast maker. She also is the director of the John Adams Institute, an independent foundation in the Nethe...
Holly Rankin aka Jack River
04 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Holly Rankin is the latest guest on the Women Mind the Water Artivist podcast series on WomenMind theWater.com. Holly is an Australian singer/song...
Kara Dodge
18 Aug 2023
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Kara Dodge is a research scientist at the Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Research, the research arm of the New England Aquarium in Boston. Her sp...
Hannah St. Luce-Martinez
28 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hannah St. Luce-Martinez, well-versed in Belize’s natural and cultural resources, is the latest guest on Women Mind the Water Artivist Series. She...
Hoku Cody
30 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hoku Cody, a Native Hawaiian, seabird biologist, and life-long ocean lover, protector, and advocate advocates for community stewardship in actions, ...
Vicki Nichols Goldstein
06 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Vicki Nichols Goldstein is the latest guest on the Women Mind the Water Artivist Series podcast. Vicki is founder of the Inland Ocean Coalition. H...
Rebecca Rutstein
16 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Rebecca Rutstein, an accomplished artist who has received many awards and been involved in numerous public exhibitions, is the latest guest on Women...
Lisa Scali
20 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lisa Scali considers herself a foodie and a lover of the ocean. She is more than a co-owner of Ocean’s Balance and a chef, she is a proponent of e...
Tosha Grantham
29 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Tosha Grantham is the latest guest on Women Mind the Water Artivist series on WomenMindtheWater.com. Tosha holds an advanced degree from Howard Un...
Abigail Carroll
06 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Latest guest on Women Mind the Water Artivist Series (womenmindthewater.com) is Abigail Carroll, once an oyster farmer, she now advises/invests in...
Julia CR Gray
12 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Julia C R Gray is the latest guest on the Women Mind the Water Artivist series podcast. The California-based artist has a connection to nature thr...
Kimberly Kenna
22 Jan 2023
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Kimberly Kenna grew up along the shore of Long Island Sound. She writes children’s books focused on strong girls and their powerful drive to pro...
Nicole Baker
05 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nicole Baker with her Net Your Problem company has created a system that offers a solution to the disposal of used fishing gear. Net Your Problem ...
Dimitra Skandali
08 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dimitra Skandali grew up on Paros, a Greek island in the Aegean Sea. She says the island has shaped the way she sees the world. Dimitra combines t...
Lisa Kozel Mangione
25 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Lisa Kozel Mangione is a mixed media artist who is the definition of artivist. Lisa raises money for nonprofits by either donating her paintings d...
Blue de Gersigny
31 Oct 2022
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Blue de Gersigny is a plastic artist and designer. Blue lives in South Africa, a country quite literally at the southern tip of the African Contin...
Margaret Wertheim
16 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret Wertheim is an Australian-born science writer and artist who with her twin sister founded the Institute for Figuring. The Los-Angeles-based...
Maanarak of Grey
23 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Manaarak of Grey is a visual artist and storyteller who lives in the Netherlands. Maanarak grew up on the Caribbean Island of Bonaire. She believe...
Danielle Burnside
06 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Danielle Burnside grew up in Michigan on a lake. At the time she was scared of anything that lived in the water. After she moved to Hawaii, she didn...
Violet Sage Walker
21 Aug 2022
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Lisa Shaw
31 Jul 2022
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Lisa’s work demonstrates a woman deeply connected to water. She creates functional art that improves both the environment and people’s lives. Li...
Colleen Flanigan
19 Jul 2022
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Colleen Flanigan describes herself as a socio-ecological artist. Her work is both functional and artistic. Colleen works at the intersection of art,...
Kim Bernard
30 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Kim Bernard is a full-time artist based in Maine who creates installations using upcycled trash. She works with communities to share the joy of maki...
Martina Wing
16 Jun 2022
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Martina Wing, a manta ray and marine life advocate, educator, author, and underwater photographer is the latest guest on the Women Mind the Water ...
Erin Smith
21 May 2022
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Erin Smith is the CEO of Ocean Sole, a social enterprise that upcycles flip-flops found along the beaches and waterways of Kenya. Started a decade ...
Jayshree Patel
10 May 2022
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Jayshree imagined that a book from the perspective of a drop of water could transport children on their own journey and along the way they might lea...
Marie Maltais
16 Apr 2022
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Nina Azzahra
30 Mar 2022
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Kirsten Carlson
19 Mar 2022
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Maria Westerbos
03 Mar 2022
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Suzanne Turaganiwai
19 Feb 2022
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Noemi Knight
04 Feb 2022
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Mariah Reading
18 Jan 2022
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Romina Bayer
26 Dec 2021
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Cathy Sakas
16 Dec 2021
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Cheryl Massey
20 Nov 2021
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Elle Wibisono
01 Nov 2021
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Paulita Bennett-Martin
21 Oct 2021
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Ivy Frignoca
08 Oct 2021
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Janavi Kramer
26 Sep 2021
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Dianna Cohen
14 Sep 2021
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Janina “Nina” Rossiter
29 Aug 2021
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Pam Chevez and Juliette Sutherland
07 Aug 2021
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Pam Longobardi
06 Aug 2021
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Vania Lozano
25 Jul 2021
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Lluvia Tec
25 Jul 2021
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Lexi Doudera
25 Jul 2021
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Ali Farrell
25 Jul 2021
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Ruth Trevarrow
25 Jul 2021
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Krisanne Baker
16 Jul 2021
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Asher Jay
20 May 2021
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Jennifer Ensley Smith
06 May 2021
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Guenola Lefeuvre
02 May 2021
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Rocking the Boat
17 Apr 2021
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Adriana Delfin
06 Apr 2021
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Dale Andree
03 Apr 2021
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Karen Romano Young
22 Mar 2021
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Rose McAdoo
22 Mar 2021
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Sophie Davis
22 Mar 2021
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Polly Dawson
22 Mar 2021
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Lisa Blanchard
22 Mar 2021
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