Compost, Cotton & Cornrows
Compost, Cotton & Cornrows
Podcast Description
Compost, Cotton & Cornrows is disrupting sustainability storytelling and amplifying Black and Afro-Indigenous voices shaping a new narrative for liberation, cultural preservation, and planetary healing. From doulas and scientists to farmers and fashion designers, our guests are visionaries redefining what it means to build a sustainable future. This is an unapologetically intersectional, intergenerational, and global space celebrating the power of Black regenerative practices. Each episode is a dynamic fireside chat with changemakers across the Black diaspora, whose expertise and experiences span industries and identities. Compost, Cotton & Cornrows is more than a conversation—it’s an archive, a call to action, and a blueprint for the futures we’re creating for us, by us.
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The show primarily focuses on sustainability, cultural preservation, and planetary healing through the voices of Black and Afro-Indigenous changemakers. Episodes highlight diverse topics like conscious fashion with industry leaders like Nia Thomas, who discusses ethical luxury, and marine science represented by guests such as Dr. Tiara Moore, who brings attention to challenges faced by Black scientists. The podcast aims to redefine what sustainability looks like in various industries and identities.
Compost, Cotton & Cornrows is a podcast centering Black sustainability leaders across fashion, agriculture, wellbeing and beyond. Through storytelling, culture, and climate conversations, the show explores how ancestral wisdom and modern practices can cultivate regenerative futures. Hosted by Dominique Drakeford, each episode unearths powerful insights that shift the narrative of environmental justice.
In episode 53 of Compost, Cotton & Cornrows, Dominique sits down with energy justice attorney, activist and self-proclaimed ”Climate Auntie” Raya Salter for an unfiltered conversation about what it truly means to fight for environmental justice in an era defined by corporate power and political upheaval. From exposing the fossil fuel industry's decades-long misinformation campaigns to reimagining what accountability, reparations and climate justice can look like, Raya offers an expansive framework for understanding how law, policy and grassroots organizing intersect to create transformational change.
Throughout the conversation, Dominique and Raya explore the importance of intergenerational leadership, why Black communities have always been environmental solutionists, and the urgent need to center public health, storytelling and cultural organizing within the climate movement. Raya reflects on founding the Energy Justice Law & Policy Center, building youth leadership, navigating philanthropy without compromising values. They also dig in why today's movements require new laws and more importantly new leadership to reimagine futures.
Compost, Cotton & Cornrows: the space where Black & Afro-Indigenous Vanguards are redefining sustainability through storytelling!
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