This summer, the Teaching and Learning Commons (TLC) is hosting the second annual Summer of Learning, a series of mini-courses and workshops for students, faculty, staff and local K-12 educators. These workshops are intended to build community, nurture creativity, and offer low-key opportunities to learn something new. Workshop topics gardening, art-making, movement, and more! If you are interested in participating in the Summer of Learning birding workshop with Katrina Clark, please fill out the following form.
The workshop will be on Friday, July 18 from 9-10am.
Katrina Clark and Nicole Seahorn Hameen will discuss how to lead accessible and inclusive nature walks in an ever-changing world and why it benefits everyone. As founding members of In Color Birding Club they will share small tricks and larger cultural shifts that can increase the number of people who keep showing up for green spaces and the natural world.
Katrina is a teacher by day and birder by afternoon and weekend. A pandemic birder, on a walk to get fresh air, she discovered that birds were fascinating when a friend pointed out a catbird on a West Philly fence. Currently, she is a founding board member of In Color Birding Club which seeks to ensure people of color have safe, joyful, and rewarding access to green spaces and the practice of birding.
Nicole wears a few hats in community & is a founding board member of In Color Birding Club. She currently works for Fairmount Park Conservancy as the Education & Engagement Specialist & manages the WeWalkPHL program. Nicole is passionate about programs reconnecting Black and Brown people with natural lands around Philadelphia in various ways. These programs engage and connect residents to free wellness resources and activities such as: walks, kayaking, bird watching, bike riding, gardening and cooking, and park/land stewardship practices that lead & encourage people to invest in their continuous selfcare overflowing into community care in various ways. Nicole envisions her work both a celebration and reclamation of our relationship with the land, our community, our ancestors, and ourselves.
