Across Connecticut, the Natural Resources Conservation Academy’s (NRCA) Eco-Digital Storyteller (EDS; https://nrca.uconn.edu/eds/) program is reshaping how teachers approach learning—helping schools integrate environmental science, geospatial technology, digital media arts and youth-centered storytelling into everyday instruction. Despite the cancellation of federal funding, this work is continuing thanks to essential support from UConn’s EMERGE program, which has enabled […]
Equity & Inclusion
Introducing Difference Maker Mentor: Tamara Parks
Hey y’all! My name is Tamara Parks, and I am currently serving as a Difference Maker Mentor for the 2024-2025 NRCA Conservation Ambassador Program. I am a first-generation undergraduate student from New Haven, CT, completing my second year at UConn and exploring my course of study through the ACES program (so, I […]
DMM Passion Projects: Meg’s Environmental Justice Focus
Aside from mentoring Conservation Training Partnership (CTP) participants and carrying out community conservation projects, our Difference Maker Mentors take on passion projects on the side throughout the year. Currently, our Difference Maker Mentor Meg is working on creating a project template that is centered around environmental justice for future programs. During previous years, we have […]
Heroes of the Outdoors
Part of our longstanding mission at the NRCA is to open the doors for everyone to be able to access and appreciate nature and the pursuit of conservation. We aim to break the barriers that seclude populations from being able to value and exist freely in the outdoors, such as the Black and Brown community. […]
NRCA Black Lives Matter Statement
We stand in solidarity with our Black and Brown participants, volunteers, faculty and staff here at the UConn Natural Resources Conservation Academy (NRCA). Enough is enough when it comes to racial inequality, violence and other injustices that have plagued all aspects of our society and communities for far too long. We will not be silent. […]