Hello, this is the Walking Collective Podcast, an audio project to bring you a mix of walking-inspired interviews, guides, and soundscapes. My name is Jay Simpson, I’m a photographer, wilderness guide, and anthropologist and I’m excited to share with you what’s coming soon. But, first, I’m not doing this alone — Hey everybody, I’m Augusta. Unsurprisingly, I can often be found walking and noticing and walking to notice. In my more professional life as a doctoral researcher, I meander between experimental making, fieldworking, and pilgrimaging on the Camino de Santiago. The Walking Collective names an interdisciplinary locus for conversations that involve what walking offers intellectually and recreationally. It is a place to exchange reflections, readings, and mediations of all sorts with others interested in questioning “the ambulatory.” As in, “what does it mean to walk, and what does or can it offer- in the past, present, and future?” Follow our Instagram @walkingcollective — you’ll find links to readings, walking reflections, and short videos. Drop us a line to let us know what you think and share your thoughts with us by writing to [email protected] — we’d love to hear from you. And keep your ears to the ground — our first full episode of the Walking Collective Podcast is coming your way in soon. In it, Indigenous photographer and writer Joe Whittle offers a land acknowledgement to begin our project, He also recounts a story of his great - great - great grandfather who walked from the Mississippi river all the way to the Pacific Ocean, and we discuss the question “what does it mean to walk on Native Land?” I can’t wait to share it with you soon. Catch our first episode wherever you listen to your podcasts, or on our website at http://walkingcollective.xyz