Mycelium Mapping and the JEDI Roundtable for Healing Severed Connections

The Stewardship Network

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Thursday, February 2, 2023
4:40 pm - 5:30 pm
02/02/2023 16:40:00 02/02/2023 17:30:00 America/Detroit TSN Conference: Mycelium Mapping and the JEDI Roundtable for Healing Severed Connections https://conference.stewardshipnetwork.org/session/2-1640-concurrent-session-4-room-c Virtual The Stewardship Network staff@stewardshipnetwork.org

The California Landscape Stewardship Network (CLSN) Justice, Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion (Healing Severed Connections) Roundtable actively collaborate to create tools, approaches, and meaningful conversation that help evolve the work of landscape conservation to be more inclusive, equitable, and culturally relevant. The Mycelium Map is an ecological metaphor and a guide for equity work, providing the user with a pathway to explore, consider/reconsider, and act. The Map was created for the CLSN to guide individuals and organizations to drive conversation, lead action, and increase connectivity across our field of practice.

This workshop will provide a background on some of the work done in CLSN’s JEDI roundtable and dive deeper into the Mycelium Map. While we encourage you to navigate through the map individually taking the path that calls to you, a portion of our time together will be working through two activities on the Map.

 

Presenters

Laurel Wee
Laurel Wee, an alumnus of UC Santa Barbara’s Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, specialized in Conservation Planning with a Strategic Environmental Communication and Media focus. Her participation in the California Landscape Stewardship Network’s Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion roundtable began when she was working for Parks California as a Resource Stewardship Intern. During the internship, Laurel researched tools used by park planners to balance public access and resource protection. Laurel is interested in environmental stewardship that connects community engagement, education opportunities, and climate solutions.
Barb Kipreos
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.