The Future Leaders in Conservation initiative seeks to engage and support students and people early in their conservation careers.
The goals of this initiative are to 1) identify how conservation organizations can support students and early career professionals, 2) build a peer-support community, and 3) host engagement sessions that serve as learning and networking opportunities. Longer term goals include establishing a mentorship network and hosting in-person events.
Get involved!
Contact us: r2rbirds@gmail.com
- Join our planning team to help with event planning, establishing our peer community, and setting our goals
- Connect us with your networks: collaborate on and advertise events, expand our community, become part of our mentorship network
- Share your ideas
- Take our survey
Previous events
"On the Road to Resilience"
This virtual engagement session (offered in English and Spanish) focused on ecological grief and identifying strategies for resilient conservation careers. We had two presentations: “On the Road to Resilience: Navigating Ecological Grief in Conservation” by Madison Cooper and Stephanie Olsen and “Cultivating Hope” by Sergio Gómez Villaverde and Karen Odriozola. Following the presentations, we hosted small group discussions.
Resources
Contribute to our growing list of resources. This is a work in progress, feel free to add your resources or contact us with resources you’d like to add.
A longer list of resources for dealing with ecological grief compiled by Fish & Wildlife Service employees. This includes: books, journal articles, podcasts, workshops, and more.
Meet the planning team
Esmeralda Bravo
International Fellow (Road to Recovery)
Quinn Carvey
Graduate Fellow (Road to Recovery) and PhD Candidate (University of New Brunswick)
Anna Lello-Smith
Avian Conservation Coordinator (Wildlife Conservation Society)
Fabiola Rodríguez
Post-doctoral researcher (Cornell Lab of Ornithology)
Emily Sinkular
PhD Candidate (Virginia Tech)
Henry Stevens
PhD Candidate (Georgetown University)
Kiah Williams
Science Policy Fellow (NAS/USFWS)
