Environment 2041 Leadership for Emerging Leaders Program

The Center for Diversity & the Environment is honored and pleased to announce that through generous funding from Metro’s Nature and Neighborhoods grant and US Fish and Wildlife funding, we are offering a third Environment 2042 Leadership Program for Emerging Leaders cohort in 2019.

 

Our E42 Emerging Leaders Program is focused on supporting emerging leaders age 18-25 in their personal growth and work to deepen understanding of the implications of our changing demographics, understanding systems as ways of supporting or undermining performance, developing skills in working across differences and with communities of color and developing action plans.

 

Each cohort includes representation across various dimensions of diversity with a strong emphasis on racial and ethnic diversity. Selecting a balanced cohort is a critical and a unique element of this leadership program. As we begin the process of recruitment, we invite you all to nominate any emerging leaders that you believe will benefit from an experience like this one.

 

Please note that we will be reviewing applications as they arrived, so please encourage your Emerging Leaders to apply ASAP as the deadline (Monday, Dec 10th 5:00 pm) is coming up fast.

Following is more information about the E42 Emerging Leaders Program and the Center for Diversity & the Environment. Please feel free to contact Queta González, Punneh Abdolhosseini or Gladys Ruiz with any questions.  Please see attached documents for more information and the E42 Emerging leaders application.

 

Call for Applicants: Environment 2042 Emerging Leaders

(E42 Emerging Leaders Cohort 2019)

Dear Community members,

 

The Center for Diversity & the Environment is honored and pleased to announce that through generous funding from Metro’s Nature and Neighborhoods grant and US Fish and Wildlife Service, we are offering a third Environment 2042 Leadership Program for Emerging Leaders cohort in 2019.

 

Our E42 Emerging Leaders Program is focused on supporting emerging leaders age 18-25 in their personal growth and work to deepen understanding of the implications of our changing demographics, understanding systems as ways of supporting or undermining performance, developing skills in working across differences and with communities of color and developing action plans.

 

Each cohort includes representation across various dimensions of diversity with a strong emphasis on racial and ethnic diversity.  Selecting a balanced cohort is a critical and a unique element of this leadership program. As we begin the process of recruitment, we invite you all to encourage any emerging leaders that you believe will benefit from an experience like this one to apply.

 

Following is more information about the E42 Emerging Leaders Program and the Center for Diversity & the Environment. Please feel free to contact Queta González, Punneh Abdolhosseini or Gladys Ruiz with any questions.

 

For more information about Center for Diversity & the Environment and our work, visit: www.cdeinspires.org

 

For more information or for any questions, please contact:

 

Queta González

Director, Center for Diversity & the Environment

Cell: 503.926.4868

 

Punneh Abdolhosseini

E42 Emerging Leaders Co-Facilitator

206.434.1750

 

 

Gladys Ruiz

E42 Emerging Leaders Co-Facilitator

Cell: 347.661.8089

 

 

 

 

 

 

Why encourage an Emerging Leader to apply to the E42 Emerging Leaders Cohort?

 

The leadership within the environmental movement does not accurately reflect the growing Asian, Black, Native and Latino populations across the Pacific Northwest region nor the current and rapidly changing face of the U.S.—a face that is about 36% people of color and will grow to 50% people of color by 2042, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Without the active involvement of people of color, our ability to work together to solve our future’s interconnected challenges will be severely hindered.

 

The E42 Emerging Leaders cohort provides a wonderful opportunity to build bridges between environmental leadership and a diverse community of peers and professionals working together to address our environmental challenges with innovative solutions. The prominent opportunity in this project is community building: create space for dialogue among related stakeholder groups to find common ground, and to build capacity for all partners to work together toward shared goals for a more livable and just society.

 

Please join us.

 

The program will take place Feb-April 2019 consisting of monthly sessions that take place on weekends. We will also have evening community meetings during the week not exceeding once a month. The facilitated monthly sessions will include: racial equity training, understanding environmental and racial history, relationship and community building, skills to lead change, and tools to develop action-based solutions at the individual, organization, and movement-wide levels. Each participant will leave with an action plan, skills and tools to create inclusive workspaces

 

About the Center for Diversity & the Environment

Our Vision

We envision a healthy, flourishing planet and society that sustainably and equitably meets the needs of all through an environmental movement that is diverse, inclusive, successful, vibrant, and relevant, taking into account the needs, perspectives, and voices of all. The Center for Diversity and the Environment harnesses the power of racial and ethnic diversity to transform the US environmental movement by developing leaders, catalyzing change within institutions, and building alliances.

 

Our Theory of Change

The Center for Diversity & the Environment grew out of the belief that everyone has a place in the environmental movement. Everything we do at CDE supports this vision of inclusivity. We build bridges between communities of color and the environmental community, fostering a fundamental revolution of the environmental movement into an equitable, inclusive, and diverse coalition of people at work on a wide array of environmental issues. We believe that diversity strengthens and enriches our work and makes the environmental movement more relevant than ever. Alumni of our programs carry this work forward and out into their communities: they are the change agents and ambassadors of the changing face of environmentalism.

 

 

 

 

Important Program Dates:

Date	Topic
Saturday, February 2nd 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.	Check – In Team Building Cooper Mountain Nature Park
Saturday, February 16th 1:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Leaven	Native American Perspective on Conservation with Chuck Sams, Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla (Cayuse, Umatilla, Walla Walla)
Thursday, February 21st 6:00 p.m. 9:00 p.m. Leaven	Cohort check-in from 6-8pm – Review and Analysis -The art of reflection, inquiry & action
Friday- Sunday March 1st– 3rd Depart and Arrival (TBD) Westwind	Racial Equity Institute Training *Weekend overnight retreat, Friday evening through Sunday afternoon.
Thursday, March 7th 6:00 p.m. 8:00 p.m. Leaven	Cohort check-in from 6-8pm – Review and Analysis -Reflection, inquiry & action
Saturday March 16th 1:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Leaven	Ranchers Perspective on Conservation with Liza Jane McAlister, a fourth-generation rancher in Eastern Oregon Full Day session in NE Portland
Friday-Sunday March 22-24 Depart Friday at 6:00 p.m. Arrive in Portland at 5:00 p.m. Sunday at 5:00 p.m. Alton Collins	Retreat Building the Foundations & Tools for Change *Weekend overnight retreat, Friday evening through Sunday afternoon.
Thursday April 4th 6:00 p.m.- 8:00 p.m. Leaven	Emerging Leaders Planning Session
Saturday April 13th 1:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Leaven	Celebration and course wrap-up