Pina Soul Podcast
Piña Soul SPC is an Indigenous‑led Social Purpose Corporation dedicated to uplifting environmental protectors and community knowledge‑keepers across our homelands. Our podcast honors those working on the frontlines of climate justice, conservation, and cultural resurgence, sharing their stories, science, and spirit with the world.
Through this podcast, we uplift the voices, stories, and lived knowledge of all people doing environmental and community‑led climate justice work across our homelands. As a podcast held in the spirit of Earth Daughters, we center Indigenous women and youth while also welcoming the broader circle of land protectors and knowledge‑keepers who are caring for wildlife, waters, and the living Earth through ancestral teachings and grounded, place‑based science.
Episodes
7 episodes
Episode 7: I Carry My Ancestors in My Bones
In Episode 7 of Piña Soul, we are joined by Dr. Hortencia Jiménez, professor, sociologist, author, podcaster, and activist for a conversation about healing, identity, ancestral wisdom, and self-discovery.In Part 1, we discuss her new poe...
Episode 6: Daughters of the Forest
Welcome to Episode 6 of the Piña Soul Podcast! 🎙️In this episode, we speak with Otilia Portillo Padua, director and producer of Daughters of the Forest, an immersive sci-fi documentary that follows two Indigenous mycologi...
Episode 5: Healing Through Ancestral Memory
In this episode, we are joined by Dr. Rocio Rosales Meza, a Xicana/Mexicana seer, mother, spiritual guide, and initiated medicine woman with a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology. Rooted in a matriarchal lineage, her work weaves together ancestral, ...
Episode 4: Pretty, A Memoir
In this episode, we explore Pretty by KB Brookins, a powerful, award-winning memoir that confronts identity at the intersections of race, gender, and perception. Drawing from personal experience and Black queer studies, Brookins reflec...
Episode 3: Poppy State - A Labyrinth of Plants and a Story of Beginnings
In this episode, we step into the winding, layered world of Poppy State: A Labyrinth of Plants and a Story of Beginnings by Myriam Gurba. Blending memoir, botany, and sharp cultural critique, Gurba invites us to reconsider California n...
Episode 2: When Trees Testify - Science, Wisdom, History, and America's Black Botanical Legacy
In this powerful episode, Dr. Beronda Montgomery invites us to reimagine the relationship between science, history, and the living world. Drawing from her book When Trees Testify, she reveals how trees are not just part of the landscap...
Episode 1: When We Are Kin- Rethinking Reparations, Land Back, and Justice
Welcome to the Piña Soul Podcast with Dr. Jessica Hernandez.Today’s episode features a powerful conversation with Dr. Kyle Mays, an Afro-Indigenous writer and scholar whose work explores U.S. history, urban studies, race relations, and c...