Coffee & Geography 1x21 Chantal Mayo-Holloway & Akhera Williams (UK)

Kit talks to Akhera Williams & Chantal Mayo-Holloway over some light beverages, chatting about amplifying marginalised voices in the classroom, futsal, unemployed squirrels, amongst other things! Akhera is a student geographer, community organiser, poet, and artist from South London. She studies BA Geography at King's College London and is the co-founder of the youth-led educational campaign ReRoot.Ed as well as the oral histories project the VoicesProject. Akhera has an interest in ending structural inequalities, both socially and environmentally. Chantal has for over 20 years been a geography geek, committed to improving the lives and life chances of the students she teaches by helping them see the world through geography goggles, lives by the mantra “practising what we preach”. Chantal sees geography everywhere, embedded in everything around us (whether that is hiking in the Himalayas, or cycling to school or sat in a classroom). Expand your Geography community by connecting with Chantal via Twitter (https://www.twitter.com/CMOGeography), and Akhera via the VoicesProject at https://www.twitter.com/voicesproject_ and https://www.thevoicesproject.co.uk/. The chat was recorded on 24th July 2021. ==About Coffee & Geography== The aim of ‘Coffee & Geography’ is to get to know, explore and celebrate the diverse & intersectional range of people and their love for the world. We’ll have fun exploring all the myriad of ways that connects your life to geography. Wait – you don’t think you’re a ‘geographer’? Well, that’s ok! If you have a love and passion for the world then you probably are more than you know. If you're interested in being a guest or want to find out more, then visit https://geogramblings.com/coffee-geography-podcast/. There you will also find an interactive map to explore the locations of guests and the brews that they drink! Follow us on Twitter at https://www.twitter.com/CoffeeGeogPod. The Coffee & Geography Podcast is a 'Geogramblings' production, hosted and produced by Kit Rackley (they/them). The podcast is supported by generous donations via https://ko-fi.com/kitrackley, and takes advice from an advisory board of volunteers.