Barb Kipreos recently graduated from UC Irvine with a master’s in Conservation and Restoration Science. She joined the California Landscape Stewardship Network’s JEDI Roundtable while she was an intern with Parks California working on the Bright Spots Initiative, which set out to highlight conservation collaboratives in California that have interwoven JEDI principles into their work. She now is a Climate Justice Fellow at the American Bird Conservancy to explore ways that bird conservation can further climate justice throughout the Americas and co-facilitates the Western Collaborative Conservation Network’s Emerging Leadership Working Group to lower barriers for future conservationists.