AT: Texas Master Naturalist-Be the Change

The Texas Master Naturalist Program is happy to announce a new mini-webinar series, “Be The Change”, dedicated to exploring diversity, equity & inclusion opportunities in our natural resource and conservation community. Just as the natural world thrives with biodiversity, our Texas Master Naturalist Program is dedicated to engaging all audiences in conservation, education and stewardship.

One of the goals with this mini series event is to start and continue to conversations about diversity, equity and inclusion amongst the Master Naturalist membership. Another goal of this series is to build a strategic guide or ‘playbook’ for TMN Chapters to use for years to come as they build diversity, equity and inclusion programming into their chapters’ activities. Speakers will share discussion questions and action items for each chapters & members to consider and execute as the series builds towards a capstone workshop – tentatively to be held Spring of 2022. This chapter-developed diversity strategy guide or ‘playbook’ will be a living document, focusing on the goals and action items chapters intend to take for increasing and/or retaining diverse members, along with reaching diverse audiences with their outreach programs. Hopefully this is a document that local chapters can build from for years to come.