So it was an opportunity for me to really grow. It was a 90-day instructor education course with one of these big adventure hubs.

I’m such a “now” person, so I’m like, “Let’s just do this now. In the beginning when I was starting Wild Diversity, I really wanted to have the actual hands-on experience with people guiding me and telling me, This is the right way to approach this, this is how to take a group out. I am in Ellwood, Oregon, southeast of Portland. We do outdoor adventures and outdoor education for the BIPOC and the LGBTQ+ communities. I am the executive director and the founder at Wild Diversity. It wasn’t something I wanted to do, and I felt so much shame around it, because the community supported me.

My whole dream of being outdoors, I was not feeling it. It has been edited for length and clarity.Īfter I got out of the course, I didn’t want to be outdoors anymore. Mercy M’Fon told their story to producer Sarah Vitak for an episode of The Daily Rally podcast.

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