Kassia Meador surfs with grace for the Ocean

Hosts Natasha Benjamin and David Helvarg speak with Kassia Meador — longtime professional surfer, designer, and ocean devotee whose ecstatic longboard style has made her one of the sport’s most recognizable figures. The conversation moves like a tide, pulling from her earliest saltwater memories shaped by a surfer father, to the changes she’s witnessed in the ocean over decades in the water. Meador also speaks to her founding of the first wetsuit brand designed by women for women, and explores the deeper currents connecting surfing and kelp to questions of creation and community. It’s a conversation rooted in the sea — and everything it asks of the people who love it.