Name: Out In Nature: Creating Safe Spaces in Nature for the Queer Community
Start: 2025-03-01T11:15:00-0600
End: 2025-03-01T12:00:00-0600

The Wild Things Conference Returns Saturday, March 1, 2025 - SOLD OUT

We’re thrilled to welcome you again to learn and share your expertise with our community. We’ve put together an exciting lineup of workshops and sessions from regional and national experts, plus meet & greets, video content, exhibitors, and sponsors. With over 140 presentations and discussion panels to choose from, the in-person program engages a diverse range of topics, research, and skills, and plenty of opportunities to meet with friends, old and new.

Thank you as well to our sponsors, scholarship supporters, and exhibitors who are all helping to make this another tremendously successful Wild Things.

Tickets for Wild Things 2025 are sold out. For additional information on the 2025 conference, visit wildthingscommunity.org.

**PLEASE NOTE: Some details are subject to change.**

NOTICE: Please be advised that photos and videos will be taken during Wild Things 2025. By attending, you consent to be photographed, filmed, and/or otherwise recorded. Your attendance on this event constitutes your agreement to the use of any resulting media by Friends of Illinois Nature Preserves for promotional, marketing, or any other purpose in perpetuity, without further approval or any compensation.

Saturday March 1, 2025 11:15am - 12:00pm CST

Room 27

Out In Nature is a local community affinity group that creates an accessible, positive environment for all LGBTQIA+ individuals to connect, explore, and experience nature and the outdoors, and it has been doing so since 2019. Our goal at Wild Things will be to share with conferencegoers how to best make nature spaces safe, welcoming, and accessible for the queer community. We will talk about past events, our community engagement and outreach strategies and events, and our history as queer naturalists and an organization. Out In Nature has partnered with organizations like The Nature Conservancy, Lincoln Park Zoo, Indiana Dunes National Park, Cook and Lake County Forest Preserves, and many more local conservation organizations.

Presenters

Henry Adams

Urban Wildlife Institute, Lincoln Park Zoo

Henry (he/they) is a wildlife ecologist, educator, and illustrator from Atlanta, Georgia. They studied wildlife disease ecology under Dr. Sonia Hernandez at the University of Georgia. Henry has researched urbanization's impact on white ibis in South Florida and amphibian pathogens... Read More →

CJ Greco

Teen Programs Manager, Lincoln Park Zoo / Out In Nature

CJ Greco (they/she) is a nonbinary transwoman, activist, and naturalist from Chicago, Illinois. They have been working in informal conservation education for most of their life starting as a youth volunteer 17 years ago. CJ has worked and volunteered for a wide array of conservation... Read More →

Brian Forist

Saturday March 1, 2025 11:15am - 12:00pm CST
Room 27

Community Engagement, Intro

Session Session Block B: 11:15 - 12 PM

Henry Adams

CJ Greco

Brian Forist

Attendees (126)

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