Author: Amanda Martin-Hardin

Amanda Martin-Hardin (she/her) is a History PhD candidate at Columbia University studying twentieth-century U.S. history with an emphasis on race/racialization and access to outdoor recreation spaces. She researches how certain leisure landscapes became predominantly white spaces, as well as how people of color resisted their exclusion from outdoor recreation spaces. Amanda currently hosts a podcast about “urban nature” in New York City called Everyday Environmentalism.