New Horizons in Conservation

JEDSI regularly holds New Horizons events to explore urgent issues in the environmental sector, with a focus on perspectives in environmental institutions, food insecurity and sovereignty, climate and energy, outdoor experiences, future leadership in the environmental movement, and more. To date, there have been five New Horizons in Conservation Conferences. These international, widely attended conferences are an opportunity to better understand drivers of progress and current challenges within the conservation field and assess critical gaps.  

The New Horizons in Conservation Conference welcomes all students and professionals in the conservation field who seek to explore solutions to ongoing environmental challenges and/or challenges encountered by those working in the sector.

New Horizons also works to bolster the critical pipelines built by JEDSI pathway programs (Link is external) across the nation by providing spaces for participants to connect with peers, network, engage in hands-on professional development workshops and training, attend local field trips, and hear from leaders and visionaries in the field. 

This has been a dream of mine for several years. To have a conference that is a conservation and environmental conference, that when I walk in the room I am not counting how many Brown and Black faces I see. I wanted a conference that when you walked in you saw yourself, you saw people of the global majority, you saw people of color…I also wanted to prove the naysayers wrong that keep saying over and over that we can’t.

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Dorceta E. Taylor, Wangari Maathai Professor of Environmental Sociology

I was impressed by the spectrum of people at the conference — from fellows, alumni, professionals, and CEOs. I finally see a clear direction of how to progress through my career path from where I am now up through CEO.

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John Ngyuen, Graduate student at Villanova University

For more information about the New Horizons Conservation Convenings

Please contact us at:

newhorizons@yale.edu

The conference I met four other black women from Jamaica doing what I’m doing and we were able to connect with each other. When people say there are not enough people of color working on this, they’re wrong – they’re rendering us invisible.

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Sacha-Rose Phillips - Graduate student at the University of Michigan

You can read about it, you can have one-on-one conversations on it, you can look at the studies, you can have the data and the research, but it really hits home when you are in a room where you can actually see this vision of the future

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José González - Founder of Latino Outdoors