Designed to inform and support:

• environmental and conservation funders working with Indigenous communities
• environmental and conservation organizations’ staff/boards

The geographic focus is the western contiguous United States, Alaska, and western Canada.

Join us for four, 90-minute webinars to explore themes that emerged in Unfencing the Future:

Part One: February 3 and 10: Register Here

Part Two: February 24 and March 3: Register Here

 

February 3: 11am PST/2pm EST – Importance of Relationships

Panelists:

Meaghan Calcari Campbell, Program Officer, The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

Tom Dougherty, Retired Western Director, National Wildlife Federation

Frederick Olsen, Jr. (Haida), Executive Director, Southeast Alaska Indigenous Transboundary Commission

Kent Salazar, Chair of Board, National Wildlife Federation

 

February 10: 11am PST/2pm EST – Working Inclusively and Respectfully

Panelists:

Jason Baldes (Eastern Shoshone), Tribal Buffalo Program Manager, National Wildlife Federation

Scott Christensen, Executive Director, Greater Yellowstone Coalition

Anji Moraes, Senior Program Officer, Paul G. Allen Family Foundation

Janet Offensend, Chair of Board, Greater Yellowstone Coalition

 

February 24: 11am PST/2pm EST – Decision-Making Power and Access

Panelists:

Erin Dovichin, Managing Partner, Alaska Venture Fund

Jennifer Ferenstein, Native Lands Partnerships Program and Senior Conservation Manager, The Wilderness Society

Siva Sundaresan, Director of Conservation, Greater Yellowstone Coalition

Mary Turnipseed, Program Officer, The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

 

March 3: 11am PST/2pm EST – Increasing Funding and Flexibility

Panelists:

Bill Tripp (Karuk), Director of Natural Resources and Environmental Policy, Karuk Tribe

Garrit Voggesser, National Director for Tribal Partnership, National Wildlife Federation

possibly others

 

Part One: February 3 and 10: Register Here

Part Two: February 24 and March 3: Register Here

 

Panels will be moderated by Hester Dillon, 4 Rivers Consulting, LLC.

Unfencing the Future was created with funding from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.