MELANIN BASE CAMP

Beautiful, empowering, and exhilarating, Melanin Base Camp is celebration of under- represented BIPOC adventurers that will challenge readers to rethink their perceptions of what an outdoorsy individual looks like.

When disabled veteran and skydiver Danielle Williams founded Melanin Base Camp and the coalition of influencers known as Diversity Outdoors, they had the mission to increase ethnic representation in adventure sports. She soon found out many there are many BIPOC adventurers who hike, surf, kayak, climb and/or skydive - they just aren't represented in television ads or on influencer accounts.

In Melanin Base Camp, Williams interviews 21 BIPOC adventurers including Senegalese surfers, Desi skydivers, queer Latinx climbers, and African American hikers, and more, exploring their love of the outdoors, their experiences as minorities in the community, and their passion for the conversation of indigenous lands.

Beautifully designed with more than 150 stunning and inspiring photographs of adventurers enjoying nature's most breathtaking activities, Melanin Base Camp is the story of strong, empowered and resilient individuals that will inspire readers to reshape their perceptions on what it means to be outdoorsy.

Danielle Williams is the Founder of DiversifyOutdoors.com and the Senior Editor of blogging platform Melanin Base Camp. Danielle graduated from Harvard in 2008 and spent the next 10 years in the U.S. Army with deployments in Iraq and the Philippines. In 2018, she founded Diversify Outdoors, a coalition of outdoor entrepreneurs, activists, influencers and non-profits leveraging the power of social networks to promote racial and gender equity. Danielle has been featured in Vogue Business, Refinery29, NPR, New York Times, ABC News, and more.