Saddle Up Harrisburg Pt. 1

When Wileen Amy-Scott’s three year old daughter caught the horse bug, she decided she wanted her daughter’s instructor to be a mirror. With that goal she set out to find a Black riding instructor in Harrisburg. A simple task turned out to not be so simple as her search stretched into weeks and then months. During her time of searching, she noticed that not a single owner, instructor, nor student looked like her daughter. Eventually she did find a Black instructor, but in her first immersion of the horse world, she noticed a lack of diversity and representation.

Kid pets a chestnut horse
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