Diversify the Outdoors
The Wenatchee River Institute is committed to being a safe, welcoming space for all. Learn more about our commitment here.
Use these links below to learn more about diversifying the outdoors and the different organizations working towards that mission.
- Outdoor Afro
- Latino Outdoors
- Team Naturaleza
- Melanin Base Camp
- Earthtone Outside
- Wild Diversity
- Diversify Outdoors
- Outdoors Alliance for Kids
- Embracing Equity
- Native Women's Wilderness
- GirlVentures
- Natives Outdoors
- Wenatchee Pride
- Mountain Queers
Check out this article written by a Black Leavenworth local, Chelsea Murphy
A resource showing how to include Tribal history and land acknowledgment in your outdoor experiences
Books on our reading lists are:
- Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors by Carolyn Finney
- How to be Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
- We Want To Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom by Bettina Love
- Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum
- White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
Podcasts we are listening to:
- She Explores: EPISODE 53: NATIVE CONNECTION TO THE LAND
- NPR's Code Switch Podcast, Episode 2: Being 'Outdoorsy' When You're Black Or Brown
- On Point: Black Bodies, Green Spaces
If you have any resources that you'd like to add to this working list, please email us at info@wenatcheeriverinstitute.org.
