Wildwoods Program Impact: A COVID-era reflection.
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Local Sheroes of Nature – Norma Edith García-Gonzalez
It’s Women’s History Month and our celebration of inspiring local leaders who champion nature and the outdoors continues… This week we honor Norma Edith García-Gonzalez. Appointed as Director of the Los Angeles County Parks Department in 2020, Norma is the first woman and the first person of color to serve in this role since the…
Local Sheroes of Nature – Cindy Montañez
Another week, another inspiring leader and champion of nature and the outdoors… This week we honor Cindy Montañez. Raised in the San Fernando Valley, Cindy’s passion for the environment was ignited at an early age by her parents. During by her freshman year at UCLA, she participated in a hunger strike on campus that ultimately…
Enough
More than a dozen years ago the horror of the Columbine tragedy changed my life. It was that school shooting in April of 1999 and the subsequent Fort Gibson, Oklahoma school shooting that followed in December that set my life on the course it still holds. Those tragedies indicated to me and a handful of…
Local Sheroes of Nature – Candice Dickens-Russell
Another week, another inspiring leader and champion of nature and the outdoors… This week we’re celebrating friend of Wildwoods, Candice Dickens-Russell! As the Director of Environmental Education at TreePeople, a post she held for 13 years, Candice oversaw their K-12 environmental education program (serving thousands of students each year) and the Generation Earth program, providing…
Local Sheroes of Nature – Mom
This week, to close out Women’s History Month, we’re handing the reigns over to our Executive Director, Dwain Wilson, who’s dedicating our final post to a special champion of nature and the outdoors…. his mom, Alice Wilson. Mom grew up on a dairy farm in the hills of North Carolina, just after the Second World…
