Breaking Barriers: Race and Outdoor Learning

Jacqueline L. Scott is a scholar, writer, and consultant on race and nature. She is a postdoctoral fellow at Queen’s University. Scott’s PhD thesis is called Being Black and Outdoors: The Perception of the Wilderness in the Canadian Imagination. She is a former fellow at the Safina Center, and a past community director at the Institute for Public Art and Sustainability, Evergreen Brickworks. Scott volunteers as a land steward, and as a hike and bike leader with outdoor clubs.