Season 3, Episode 5: My First Protest: Protecting Our National Parks
March 6, 2025
Season 3, Episode 5: My First Protest: Protecting Our National Parks
In this episode of The Imperfect Advocate Podcast, host Karen Auld takes listeners on a journey through her first protest experience. Inspired by a social media post from ALT National Parks, Karen learns about a nationwide protest organized by Resistance Rangers in response to unjust layoffs of park rangers. With her husband, Bill Auld, she sets out to Jockey Hollow National Park to stand in solidarity with the cause.
Karen and Bill share the emotional and eye-opening encounters they had, from meeting impacted rangers to engaging in conversations with fellow protesters, including a family with young Junior Rangers and a supportive couple visiting from Norway. They also reflect on the bipartisan importance of national parks and the need to protect them beyond political divides.
This episode highlights the power of showing up, speaking out, and advocating for what you love—imperfectly but passionately. Karen wraps up with practical ways listeners can take action, including contacting elected officials, and shares an inspiring quote from Theodore Roosevelt on conservation.
Links:
Instagram for Alt National Park Services
About Karen auld
Karen Auld is an environmentalist and mind-set coach for mission-driven entrepreneurs and activists. Karen brings pragmatic thinking to her self-help teaching and environmentalism keeping heavy topics light and digestible. She is also the co-author of Color Love and Kindness, a coloring book based on a buddhist tradition known as metta.
When she is not giving talks or coaching, you can find Karen enjoying nature with her husband or watching her favorite shows, RuPaul’s Drag Race and Stranger Things, with a cat on her lap.
