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Published on
06 - 03 - 2021
Ava Holliday
Ava Holliday, M.A.: Ava (she/her) believes a sustainable future is dependent on simultaneously working towards social and environmental justice. She has devoted the last eight years to researching and working in this field. As a graduate student at the University of Washington in the department of Anthropology, Ava was able to deepen her understanding about justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion efforts and challenges in environmentalism, conservation, and outdoor recreation. At UW, she taught courses covering topics such as power, identity, environmentalism, health, and wilderness. She left graduate school to put theory into practice at the Avarna Group. In addition to her work at the Avarna Group, she has supported the LGBTQ Outdoor Summit and serves on the Next 100 Coalition. Throughout her academic and professional career, Ava has supported thousands of people and hundreds of organizations in service of deepening understanding of and cultivating skills to address oppression in environmentalism, conservation and outdoor education.
Make sure your public statement isn’t window dressing: There is your public statement, and then there’s the work
By: Ava Holliday and Aparna Rajagopal In her essay “Poetry is not a Luxury,” Audre Lorde wrote "there are no…
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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…
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Why it’s not enough to enlist board members of color: a cookie tale
As the year draws to a close and my family enters cookie baking mode, I’m thinking about a harder nut…
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