Thank you to all our members! Together we can do great things. The recipient of our first annual Diversity in the Environmental Professions Scholarship had this to share: I had a very interesting experience attending NAEP meeting this year. As a fulltime graduate student in fisheries science, I have spent most of my professional life in school and around professional academics. Everyone I knew was a scientist and in a space where a university was attached, so spending time at this conference was an enlightening and eye-opening opportunity. I was able to network with environmentalist from a variety of different backgrounds and hear about different topics that I am normally not exposed to in class (i.e., environmental justice). While diversity in ethnicity and race may still be a challenge like a variety of other disciplines, diversity in knowledge and background was not absent at this meeting. I met lawyers, scientists, consultants, engineers, and so many more people of different employment and educational backgrounds. Overall, being invited to attend this meeting was extremely beneficial for me and I likely would have never gotten the chance to experience this without the 2022 DEI Scholarship provided by the NWAEP. (fb)

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