Ursula Valdez “Slipping Through the Cracks: Racism and the struggle for equity in the field of conservation”

racism and equity in conservation

IAS faculty member Ursula Valdez was one of 5 panelists who participated in this event as they discussed their experiences as members of the BIPOC community and co-conspirators working in and around the field of conservation.

Together, panelists discussed how racism and other issues of social injustice are connected to climate injustice and work against the goals of conservation. This was a large Zoom event hosted by Woodland Park Zoo and UW College of the Environment and UW Earth Lab and happened on August 27 2020.