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Amaris Alanis Ribeiro
AFFILIATION: North Park Village Nature Center
TITLE: Center Director
LOCATION: Illinois
LANGUAGE: Portuguese, Spanish
EXPERTISE AREA: Climate Change, Conservation, DEIJ, Environmental Education, Environmental Health, Environmental Justice, Hispanic/Latine/a/o Communities, Outdoors/Recreation, Youth
ABOUT THE EXPERT:
Amaris Alanis Ribeiro is the Center Director of the North Park Village Nature Center of the Chicago Park District. Amaris has more than fifteen years of experience in environmental science education, coordinating community engagement strategies, and developing STEM-equity programs at nonprofits, museums, botanic gardens, and the outdoors. Amaris is interested in asset-based approaches in centering communities in environmental education.
Amaris has a BS in Ecology, Ethology, and Evolution from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is completing a Master’s degree in Science Education from the Illinois Institute of Technology. Amaris is also a past participant of the Leadership Learning Labs (L3), One Sky Institute, and an ee360 Community EE Fellow. Amaris considers herself a city girl who always had a passion for nature, in both Chicago and Michoacán, her parents’ hometown in Mexico.
CONTACT:
Contact Amaris Alanis Ribeiro at Experts@diversegreen.org.
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