Tea Time Speaker Series presents: The Black Outdoors with Mardi Fuller

Join us for an engaging discussion with Mardi Fuller about the importance of Black representation in outdoor spaces on Tuesday April 30th.

By Sharmese Gunn

Date and time

Tuesday, April 30 · 12 - 2pm EDT

Location

Mount Wachusett Community College

444 Green Street Gardner, MA 01440

Agenda

12:00 PM - 12:30 PM

Community Hike/Walk with Hiking & Recreation Student Club

Put on your walking shoes and join us for "community" Hike/Walk around campus. Sponsored by the Hiking Club at Mount Wachusett Community College.

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Keynote Speaker, Mardi Fuller

1:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Outdoor Interactive Reflection

Explore the woods in this outdoor interactive and reflection workshop with keynote speaker Mardi Fuller and George LoCascio, Assistant Professor of Natural Resources.

About this event

2 hours

Tea Time Speaker Series presents: The Black Outdoors with Mardi Fuller

This is your chance to join us for an exciting in-person event at Mount Wachusett Community College. Keynote speaker, Mardi Fuller will be sharing insights and stories about her life of adventures as a Black outdoors woman that you won't want to miss! Learn barriers that marginalized people face in accessing the outdoors and how exclusion, a form of oppression, is detrimental to all people.

Funded by : Mount Wachusett Community College‘s Green Society

Hosted by : Tea Time Speaker Series

Sponsored by: Mount Wachusett Community College‘s Green Society; Tea Time Speaker Series; Mount Wachusett Community College‘s International Center for the Promotion of Diversity and Inclusion; Three Pyramids Inc.; Gateway to College; City of Fitchburg Human Rights Commission, Hiking & Recreation Student Club, and Heywood Healthcare's DEI Committee.

Invite your staff, colleagues, friends, students, and families because this event is FREE and open to the public.

For more information on The Tea Time Speaker Series please click on the link: https://mwcc.edu/category/tea-time/page/1/

Organized by

Sharmese Gunn

The goal of the “Tea Time Speaker Series” is to create a monthly dialogue that engages the college community and community members in conversations around diverse issues that are current in our community and society. Tea Time will reinforce cultural awareness within the college community, acknowledge differences, and to create a healthy dialogue around diverse conversations.