[caption id="attachment_44475" align="alignleft" width="486"] Community Sailing New Orleans Race Week on Sunday, October 2, 2022. (Photo by Chris Granger | The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate)[/caption] Khari Parrish Inspires a New Era of Community Sailing Khari Parrish is making waves in the world of sailing. As the Director of Operations for Community Sailing New…Read More
In recognition of Black History Month, US Sailing sat down with Tristan Loescher, Adult Program Director at Columbia Sailing School in Chicago, to discuss his unconventional journey into sailing, the power of 'stoke transfer,' and his efforts to make the sport more accessible and inclusive for all. Q: What first sparked your interest in sailing,…Read More
Marie Rogers never set out to be a trailblazer – but that’s exactly what she has become. When Rogers first stepped into the world of sailing, it wasn’t because it was a lifelong dream. She was a newcomer, eager to learn but quickly realized that sailing had few spaces for people like her a Black…Read More
After helping set the Chicago to Mackinac Course Record as crew aboard Areté in 2021, the 40-year-old is just getting started 289 nautical miles. 12 hours. Scream reaching 23 knots aboard a “three hulled rocket ship,” designed for speed over comfort, crossing the finish line in the dead of night. It was under these…Read More
Renae and Rhonda Mintz are serial entrepreneurs, professors, IT professionals, a project manager, NASM certified personal trainers, and mechanical design engineers with a proven track record of developing business solutions for Fortune 500, mid-size, and start-up organizations and instruction of the future generations. They are expert problem solvers and change agents whose have seen many…Read More
When Marie Rogers got out sailing for the first time at the age of 28, she fell in love. Since then, she’s become the first Black woman to hold the Commodoreship at a Los Angeles Yacht Club, become a 50-T Master Captain and certified sailing instructor, started a community sailing program, and participated in major…Read More
According to the American Psychological Association, participation in sport can provide benefits to underrepresented communities, “but only within an intentionally created environment.” That’s exactly what the Siebel Sailors Program aims to do. "In order to get more Black students involved, we at white-led organizations need to check ourselves to see if we’re reaching out in…Read More
Transatlantic voyages aboard self-made ships. Blockade running under the dead of moonless nights. A wildly successful shipping business. A groundbreaking push for equality and a dream of Pan-Africanism, nearly a century before Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. How could you not know about this American icon, right? While it may seem improbable, this is the story of…Read More
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