Center for Diversity & the Environment is honored and pleased to announce a virtual Environment 2042 Leadership Program (E42) for up to 30 leaders from the environmental education field.

The purpose of this E42 Cohort is to grow a diverse and inclusive regional network of leaders in Washington, Oregon, and California who have the knowledge, support, and agency to bring about a more equitable and culturally expansive environmental education movement. Environmental education is broadly defined to include culturally specific educators; folks working on environmental justice; environmental educators; and others.

Channeling their collective power, participants will experience CDE’s most intensive training program, engaging in deep personal, interpersonal, organizational, and systems-wide change work to reimagine and redefine environmental education.

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Center for Diversity & the Environment is honored and pleased to announce that through funding provided by the Pisces Foundation, we are offering an Environment 2042 Leadership Program (E42) for up to 30 leaders from the environmental education field. The purpose of the E42 is to grow a diverse and inclusive regional (Washington, Oregon and California) network and community of leaders who have the knowledge, support, and agency to bring about a more equitable and culturally expansive environmental education movement (broadly defined to include culturally specific educators; folks working on environmental justice; environmental educators; and others).

There is a great opportunity for environmental education to evolve as a field to better reflect and engage Indigenous people, Black people and all People of Color. It will require a broad, systemic shift in how we approach EE. We need a strong, diverse network of EE leaders to envision, instigate, and guide that shift. Channeling their collective power, participants will engage in deep personal, interpersonal, organizational, and systems-wide change work to reimagine and redefine environmental education.

The Environment 2042 Leadership Program is a training that ushers participants through a deeply impactful and transformative learning process. The program includes decolonizing work, racial equity training, relationship & community building, and skill building to develop action-based solutions at the movement-wide, organizational, interpersonal, and individual levels. E42 provides an intersection of diversity training and leadership development, which in turn builds capacity in diversity change work. These programs are not just professional journeys, but also personal ones. Graduates act as a diaspora of diversity leaders who are ambassadors of a new paradigm. Every change agent operates in a sphere of influence, and the ripple effects have an exponential impact on the environmental movement as a whole.

Selecting a balanced cohort is a critical and unique element of the E42 program. We encourage you to apply to become a member of a regionally recruited team with partners across multiple dimensions of diversity. Participants for the E42 will be chosen from applicants who demonstrate a solid grounding and commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion.