The March TMN Tuesday was the inaugural event in the new Be the Change initiative, dedicated to exploring diversity, equity, and 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.
This mini-series will run April through September on the third Tuesday of the month (tentatively based on speaker availability). Each of the series will be one hour held at the 12-noon hour CST to allow TMNs to join over the lunch hour if still engaged in the workforce and each will also be recorded for viewing later. These sessions can also count for at least Advanced Training 1-Hour.
One of the goals with this mini-series is to start and continue conversations about diversity, equity and inclusion within TMN. Another goal of this series is to build a strategic guide or ‘playbook’ for TMN Chapters to use to build diversity, equity, and inclusion programming into chapters activities. Speakers will share discussion questions and action items for each chapters and members to consider and execute as the series builds towards a capstone workshop – tentatively to be held Spring of 2022.
Watch the chapter calendar for more details on this mini-series. Tentative dates for the remaining webinars in the series are:
- April 20th
- May 18th
- June 15th
- July 20th
- August 17th
- September 21st