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Nature’s calling — for diversity to be about more than just race

Dear CNN, Like many colleagues, we were thrilled to see that the topic of diversity in the outdoors has made…

Another year around the sun

   Dear colleagues and friends, 2017 has been another momentous year for the Avarna Group. We want to thank…

And . . . here’s yet another equity v., equality (v. justice) image series

We wanted to tell you the story of why we decided to create yet another equality v. equity (v. justice)…

Video & Resources on COVID-19 & Conservation/the Outdoors

Dear Community, Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, we at the Avarna Group have been trying to figure out…

Doubling Down on DEI in the Shifting Legal Landscape

Image description: author’s rendition of the anti-DEI monster (a/k/a Froghemoth from Dungeons & Dragons) By aparna rajagopal Nearly every day,…

Sex redefined

http://www.nature.com/polopoly_fs/1.16943!/menu/main/topColumns/topLeftColumn/pdf/518288a.pdf

Learning in and out of school in diverse environments

Why do millennials not understand racism?

Dramatizing the “death” of environmentalism doesn’t help urban people of color, or anyone else

http://www.sistahvegan.com/2009/07/17/why-dont-black-people-go-camping-critical-whiteness-studies-in-environmental-education/

The trouble with wilderness

http://www.uvm.edu/rsenr/rm240/cronin.pdf

Suggested Best Practices for Supporting Trans* Students

http://www.lgbtcampus.org/assets/consortium%20suggested%20trans%20policy%20recommendations-compressed.pdf

Conservation: Indigenous Peoples’ Enemy No. 1?

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2009/11/conservation-indigenous-peoples-enemy-no-1