Name: Systemic Racism and Urban Ecology: Applications in Community Science
Start: 2025-03-01T14:15:00-0600
End: 2025-03-01T15:00:00-0600

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 2:15pm - 3:00pm CST

Room 27

Ever wonder why warblers flock to wealthier neighborhoods? The unequal distribution of birds and other species is not an accident. In this session, we will cover an introduction to systematic racism and various impacts it has on our urban ecology. We will share a case study of how we used the lens of birds and birding to demonstrate concrete examples of how systemic and environmental racism play out in our ecosystem, and how we activated this knowledge and applied it to our Illinois Master Naturalist efforts, namely through community science. We will close by asking session participants to share past, current or future efforts to incorporate these important concerns in our engagement events in order to learn from and inspire one another.

Presenters

Joy Bailey

Youth and Engagement Corps Manager, Friends of the Forest Preserves

Reconnecting with the earth, interested in the Calumet Region, passionate about environmental justice, herbalism, and inclusive, community-based and place-based interpretive guiding, apprentice community steward Wooded Island, Jackson Park

Zelle Tenorio

Cook County Master Naturalist Volunteer

You can call me Zelle (they/them). I am a Cooky County Master Naturalist Volunteer Fall class of 2023. I also volunteer with Chicago BIPOC Birders and Feminist Bird Club Chicago to organize community bird outings and events.

Wild Things Systemic Racism & Urban Ecology Applications in Community Science pdf

Systemic Racism & Urban Ecology Through the Lens of Birds pdf

Saturday March 1, 2025 2:15pm - 3:00pm CST
Room 27

Community Engagement, General

Session Session Block E: 2:15 - 3 PM

Wild Things 2025

Joy Bailey

Zelle Tenorio

Attendees (181)

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