The Brave Space Project is a multi-racial, women-led, radically collaborative creative team seeking to decolonize outdoor culture both in front of and behind the lens. Championing traditionally underrepresented voices, their work seeks to amplify character-driven stories that heal our human relationships to each other and to our planet, with a focus on socioecological justice, ancestral knowledge, and mindful living.

Brave Space Collaborators

  • Chelsea Murphy

    Chelsea Murphy (producer, director) is a nature-loving advocate on a mission to bring diversity to the outdoors. Recognizing the lack of culture and diversity in outdoor recreation, her work promotes the idea of re-creating what it means to be “outdoorsy.” She strives to be a representation both to her daughters and to fellow Black and Brown women, inspiring them to get outdoors with confidence. She uses her voice to normalize conversations around racism and white supremacy, highlighting how both systems still dominate outdoor culture. Chelsea is motivated by motherhood to be a good role model, and her current forms of activism include participating in speaker panels, writing, and social media leadership.

    shecolorsnature.com

  • Erin Joy Nash

    Erin Joy Nash (producer, director, cinematographer, editor) is a queer creative of Mediterranean European descent, a human in practice and in process on the journey of decolonizing self and the systems we live in. Her work aims to cultivate individual and collective healing through storytelling and community building by centering and amplifying stories of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color focused on healing our relationship to nature, rest as resistance, transformative justice, intersectional feminism, environmental justice, and mindful living. Erin Joy currently lives, dreams, and plays in the Pacific Northwest on the homelands of the Lummi Nation, Nooksak, and Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla. She is the founder of Brave Space Media.

  • Sanjana Sekhar

    Sanjana Sekhar (director) is an Indian-American socioecological storyteller. As a writer, creative producer, and film director, her work seeks to amplify character-driven stories that heal our human relationships to ourselves, each other, and our planet, with a specific interest in climate justice, ancestral knowledge, and systems of re-nourishment. Sanjana has been featured in the Hollywood Climate Summit, Tedx Climate AcrosstheAmericas, VH1 India, Rolling Stone India, and Webby Honorees. Sanjana is based between LA and Park City UT.

    sanjanasekhar.com

  • Rebekah Graham

    Rebekah Graham (producer, project intern) aspires towards holistic stewardship of wildlife and natural areas while advocating for accessibility, inclusivity, and equity in the spaces she occupies. She enjoys constantly asking questions, sharing knowledge, and being in relationship with human and more-than-human communities. Rebekah is a transracial adoptee from China and is currently caring for habitats along the Salish Sea.

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