Level Up: How to Position Yourself for a Raise or Promotion

Overview

Knowing your worth and communicating it effectively is key to advancing your career in conservation. In this 60-minute virtual discussion, leading experts will share practical strategies for determining when it’s the right time to ask for a raise or promotion and how to make a compelling case for yourself.

Designed for all Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) conservationists, this session will cover how to prepare your request, frame your contributions with confidence, and navigate conversations about compensation with clarity and professionalism. Participants will leave with actionable tools to advocate for their value and take the next step in their career growth. Join us to gain tools, confidence, and language to advocate for yourself and your worth.

Learn more about our experts:

Princess Lyles

Joann Lee Wagner

About Conservationists of Color

Our mission is to create safe spaces for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) conservationists to reconnect to the environment, to each other, and to their inherent right to exist free from the harmful impacts of oppression in all its forms. Our network extends far beyond land trusts and agricultural conservation organizations. Our members work in all aspects of conservation, including environment and climate, wildlife, oceans and waterways, energy, forestry, farming, ecotourism, professional associations, and more.

Our Values:
Collective Liberation: We believe in the radical liberation of
the collective global conscience from the artifacts, tools, and
practices of white supremacy, specifically as they manifest
in the conservation methods and organizations in which we
work.

Community: Our belief that liberation is collective means that
it must be done in community. We create spaces for deep
and lasting connection, healing, and radical support with
and for BIPOC conservationists. We invite our colleagues to
bear witness in allyship.

Planet & Environment: We encourage the inclusion of BIPOC
communities as active leaders in the protection of air, water,
land, and wildlife.

Racial Equity and Racial Justice: Our work centers on
principles of equity and justice as they relate to the racialized
experiences of BIPOC professionals in conversation. As
primary drivers of our work, we invest in programming that
will advance these principles in the lived experiences of
equity and justice in our members and their communities.

Contact: conservationistsofcolor@gmail.com to learn more