photo by Paving Co
Mirage
Fundraising for a new adventure podcast about the Colorado River water crisis.
Created by award-winning audio journalists Abigail Keel and Ash Sanders (Wirecutter, Radiolab, Atlas Obscura, Witness Docs from Stitcher, The Believer, Rolling Stone, All We Can Save)
Thank you to Plot Shift media for your $5k donation!
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Thank you to Plot Shift media for your $5k donation! 〰️
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The American West was built on a mirage: a blank check promising endless water.
photo by Amanda Podmore
Now, the Colorado River is in crisis and the check is due.
photo by Dawn Kish
We need your support to tell the urgent story of the Colorado River.
We’re Ash Sanders and Abigail Keel, and we’ve been on countless adventures together as friends and audio journalists.
Today, we are rafting the entire 1,500 mile length of the Colorado River to tell the story of its past and the fight for its future.
Join us in telling the story of the Mirage.
🎧 Listen to the Mirage trailer
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How your contribution helps
🙏🏼 Donors at the $50 level will be thanked in the credits of the podcast!
🎉 Donors at the $100 level are invited to an exclusive thank-you party in Brooklyn on October 5th!
You’re covering the cost of a big ole’ pack of batteries that will power Abigail’s recorder and audio equipment. We’re juiced up and ready to record trickling rivers, tent giggles, and interviews with water experts, activists, scientists and river runners.
You’re covering a night in a hotel (okay, motel) for us on either end of a river adventure. We are deeply grateful for the shower we get to take after 5-10 days bathing in a sediment-rich river!
You’re helping us cover round trip plane tickets out to Utah or California from NYC. Being able to interview subjects on the river and in their homes will make this podcast immersive, special, and better.
Want to donate a custom amount?
Invest in our mosquito repellent collection, get us a can of beans, help us pay our translators and river river guides or hey, send us on an entire reporting trip! Any and all support is greatly appreciated.
We’re rafting down the entire 1500 miles of the Colorado River
to tell the story of how we got here and what we need to do to hold onto this river.
photo by Dawn Kish
Our Colorado River Journey
graphic by Lucas Waldron