In the midst of the 2020 racial reckoning, Lisa Donahue sought out Fierce Allies, a network of justice, equity, decolonization, and intersectionality stewards, for support in decolonizing the nature connection field—a field that has long harmed Indigenous communities through the appropriation of #IndigenousLifeways.
J. Miakoda Taylor of Fierce Allies guided Donahue through their Reckoning and Reparations practicum, a reparations preparedness training that calls on participants to identify who and how they have harmed and to leverage their power to offer actionable healing and restoration to those communities.
Taylor and Donahue then tailored the practicum for the Nature Connection Network, where Donahue and Lucia Colombaro are members of the Leadership Circle. The Circle declared 2022 their “Transformational Year,” which saw the launch of public acknowledgements of harm, online community forums, and, under Colombaro’s leadership, CoDE—a tool allowing network members to connect with racial equity training opportunities.
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