Session Coordinators:
Natalie Arroyo, Humboldt County 4th District Supervisor;
Mary Burke, California Trout; and,
Leslie Wolff, Hydrologist, NOAA Fisheries, West Coast Region

Restoration practitioners strive to build a world that can sustain life, including the full spectrum of our human communities. We recognize that people need to get on board with restoration and regeneration as we face threats of habitat loss, climate change, and impacts to human health. Doing this well remains a challenge in our field. This session will focus on ways that restoration practitioners have done and can do community-building work. We will discuss justice and equitable outcomes in our project work. This session invites presenters to share tools, stories, and exciting interactive approaches to demonstrate what truly effective and diversity-minded community engagement looks like, on a project or policy level.  We also welcome presenters who would like to share ideas on the strengths of relationship development, collaborative frameworks, and cultural transformation in our rapidly changing world.
 

Diversifying Connections to Support Healthy Habitats,
Carla Avila-Martinez and Leslie Parra, Save the Redwoods League

 

Bridging Cultural Fault Lines in the Middle Klamath to Build a Restoration Movement,
Will Harling, Mid Klamath Watershed Council
 

Bedrock Principles for Successful Restoration Partnerships,
Stephen Greenwood, Portland State University

 

Centering Environmental Justice: Examples from the North Coast,
Natalie Arroyo, Humboldt County Board of Supervisors
 

Starting at Home: Co-Creating an Inclusive Restoration Organization Culture,
Jen Rice, independent consultant