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DEI Outdoors Practitioner Certification Course

Enroll In Our Certificate Program and become a catalyst for change in outdoor organizations with the DEI Outdoors Practitioner Certification.

Embracing Indigenous Ways of Knowing to Fight the Climate Crisis

The AMC DEI Virtual Speaker Series welcomes Chris Newell, to introduce and then discuss the evening's viewing of the "Reciprocity Project, Season One." This short film series, made in partnership with Indigenous storytellers and their communities worldwide, invites learning from time-honored and current Indigenous ways of being as a way to face the climate crisis.

Stories of Black Joy in the Outdoors

What feelings do backpacking evoke for you? Have you heard about Ona Judge? How can you find joy along the Presidential Traverse? Outdoor enthusiast Chaya Harris shared Black Joy in the Outdoors and why it's important for all of us in a webinar held on December 14, 2023.

Body Positive Hiking with Paige Emerson of Chubby Hiker Reviews

In 2020 Paige Emerson started an Instagram account where she reviews hikes from the perspective of someone who is plus sized. Join us as she shares her story and her experiences as a plus-sized hiker, and her plans for the future.

Queer Representation in the Outdoors with Kenjah O’Donnell from The Venture Out Project

In this presentation, Kenjah O'Donnell (they/them) – The Venture Out Project's (T.V.O.P.) Volunteer Coordinator – talks about how T.V.O.P. works to provide a safe and fun space for queer, trans, and LGBTQ+ people to experience the outdoors.

Advancing Racial Equity in Outdoor Institutions

Why, and how have People of Color been excluded from full participation in nature spaces and outdoor sports? The AMC DEI Speaker Series is pleased to welcome Mardi Fuller, a backcountry adventurer and the first known Black person to hike all 48 of New Hampshire's high peaks in winter, to present a brief, but deep dive into understanding white supremacy. How does it normalize experiences, history, narratives and environmental ideology while keeping those operating out of its framework (and that can be people of any race) from seeing beyond it?

Indigenous Voices from the Connecticut River Valley

Native people have been living here in the Connecticut River Valley of western Massachusetts for more than 10,000 years. This is the homeland of many related First People. They are called the Sokoki, Pocumtuck, Nonotuck, Woronoco, and Agawam.

Exclusive Spaces: Mitigating Inherent Risks of Racism in Outdoor Spaces

Meena Fernald, Director of Programs, City Kids Wilderness Project WY and Colleen McHugh, Director of Training and Talent Development for City Kids present Exclusive Spaces: Mitigating the Risk of Racism in Outdoor Spaces.

Beyond the American Outdoors: Equity & Inclusion is a Global Problem

Marinel de Jesus is a former human rights lawyer turned social entrepreneur, writer, speaker and advocate. She is the founder of Brown Gal Trekker / Equity Global Treks which is an award-winning social enterprise that promotes trekking to solo travelers worldwide with a focus on women's leadership and workforce equity while making a long-lasting impact on local mountain communities.

Women of Color on Creating a Safe and Inclusive Outdoors

Join Green 2.0 for a discussion with outdoors leaders on why making space for women of color in nature is so important and how we can create welcoming and safe outdoor communities for all.

Hiking While Black: The Good, the Bad, and the Weird

Krystal is an Appalachian Trail thru hiker (NoBo '11), DEIB (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging) strategist, lawyer, and recovering corporate hack. Krystal will share her experiences on the trail.

More Than a Land Acknowledgement

This presentation gives you a history of the Federal Indian policy that led to land loss and provides 5 steps on how to create a land acknowledgement that does more than just put words on paper. View additional resources from the Western MA JDEI Committee and Heather Bruegl on Google.

Mind/Heart for Diversity: In Conversation with Dr. Thomas Easley

Hosted by Yale Blue Green, Yale's environmental alumni group, this interactive livestream program features Thomas RaShad Easley, former assistant dean for community and inclusion at the Yale School of the Environment and author of the new book Mind/Heart for Diversity. Easley discusses how to use our minds and hearts simultaneously when engaged in difficult conversations or challenging circumstances around matters of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

All About Access

A Primer On Juneteenth

On June 19, 2021, for the first time ever, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts celebrated Juneteenth as an official state holiday. For those who are unaware of this historic day and want to know what it is all about and how to act, let us provide you with a little primer.

Common DEI Language: Reference Guide

At AMC, we are committed to building a shared diversity and inclusion language that serves as the foundation for having open, trusting and transparent conversations with our colleagues and with our teams. This document is a reference guide to find well-researched and vetted information and consider it to be a living document.

DEI Resource Guide

The Appalachian Mountain Club invites you to learn why it is paramount we all help make the outdoors welcoming for everyone.

The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

McGhee embarks on a deeply personal journey across the country from Maine to Mississippi to California, tallying what we lose when we buy into the zero-sum paradigm – the idea that progress for some of us must come at the expense of others.

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

Isabel Wilkerson examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows how our lives today are still defined by a hierarchy of human divisions.

From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century

Today, systematic inequality persists in the form of housing discrimination, unequal education, police brutality, mass incarceration, employment discrimination, and massive wealth and opportunity gaps. Economic data indicates that for every dollar the average white household holds in wealth the average black household possesses a mere ten cents. In this book, the authors confront these injustices head-on and make the most comprehensive case to date for economic reparations for U.S. descendants of slavery.

Stamped Racism, Antiracism and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning

This reimagining of Dr. Ibram X. Kendi's National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning reveals the history of racist ideas in America, and inspires hope for an antiracist future.

How to be an AntiRacist

In How to Be an Antiracist, Kendi takes readers through a widening circle of antiracist ideas – from the most basic concepts to visionary possibilities – that will help readers see all forms of racism clearly, understand their poisonous consequences, and work to oppose them in our systems and in ourselves.

The Rise of the American Conservation Movement: Power, Privilege, and Environmental Protection

In this sweeping social history, Dorceta E. Taylor examines the emergence and rise of the multifaceted U.S. conservation movement from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century.

Between the World and Me

In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation's history and current crisis.

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Legal scholar Michelle Alexander argues that "we have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it."

Slavery in the Connecticut Valley of Massachusetts

In this first history of colonial slavery in western Massachusetts, the author demonstrates that slavery was pervasive in the Pioneer Valley in the 1700s, where many of the ministers and other "important people" owned black slaves.

Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II

In this book, the author brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history – an "Age of Neoslavery" that thrived from the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II.

Venture Out Project

Venture Out Project leads backpacking and wilderness trips for the queer and transgender community. They also conduct transgender inclusion workshops for educators, adventure professionals, summer camps and more!

Thru-hiking Amidst the Culture Wars as a Transgender Woman

Lyla seeks to build community with other trans and gender non-conforming hikers. She tells her story publicly as a way of connecting with other trans folks, and as a way of connecting on a human level with people who are interested in learning about trans people’s experiences while deepening shared empathy and understanding.

Indigenous Voices

A 10-part series of short videos about Native life past and present.

Tribal Nations to Gather in the Berkshires to Honor Indigenous Peoples’ Day

The mission of Alliance for a Viable Future is to develop leadership for bioregional climate solutions and intercultural peacemaking.

The Living Presence of Our History Video Series

The Living Presence of Our History is a series that has brought together panels of Indigenous leaders, scholars, and allies to delve into the many intricate and complicated contemporary issues facing Indigenous peoples today.