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Our Spring & Summer calendar is here!

From community walks, hikes, and bikes to the water with paddleboarding and river tubing, we’re determined to get you outside this year to soak up all the sun. Don’t forget the sunscreen, though!

As a reminder, all meetup registration will be taking place on our Heylo page. PLUS: the Heylo squad gets access to meetup registration a week before everyone else 👀

TIP: Navigate through the pages with the left and right arrows.

of communities of color live in nature-deprived areas, compared with just 23% of white communities [The Nature Gap, Rowland-Shea et al.]

We’re working to plant seeds of safety in natural environments so that individuals of color— regardless of their gender identity, sexual orientation, creed, or economic status—can create self-sustaining lifestyles with love, support, and community.

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Working in groups, Afros in Nature (“AiN”) brings BIPOC back to our roots in the great outdoors. We are taking a pastime historically dominated by white culture and showing BIPOC how to take advantage of its benefits for themselves, for the betterment of their health and well-being, and for the improvement of our community as a whole. We are teaching BIPOC how to find healing and wholeness again in nature and one another.

“Afros: Hair strands intertwined with ancestry
Roots so deeply connected magically
Beauty springing out so wide
Any force against it, it defies
A part of the being that holds the power
Regenerating again and again
Like a mighty flower”

Nia Watson, Co-Founder