Race and Nature Symposium: Mapping the Intersection in Challenging Times

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Race and Nature Symposium: Mapping the Intersection in Challenging Times

1535 Outer Cir – Mississauga, ON

Monday, October 26  •  8 AM – 5 PM

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Overview

Canada’s first symposium on race and nature, exploring who gets access to natural spaces and whose knowledge is valued.

Mapping the Intersection of Race and Nature in Challenging Times

Join us in Mississauga for the inaugural Race and Nature Symposium, the first event of its kind in Canada.

The symposium examines how race shapes the ways nature is perceived, accessed, and experienced. Race-based inequities continue to influence who can access, control, and manage natural spaces, and whose knowledge is recognised and valued. Canada is a multi-racial society, but access to nature does not reflect that.

Childhood access shapes how people relate to nature for life. About a third of children and youth in Canada are racialised, Black, Indigenous, or first- or second-generation immigrants; in Toronto, roughly half. When they are alienated from nature or rarely see themselves in it, caring for and protecting it becomes that much harder.

This symposium engages those challenges directly, centering the voices and lived experiences of Black and other racialised communities.

Sub-themes: K-12 education, food, art, health, climate and social justice, climate mitigation, sustainability, Indigenous relations, funding.

For: scholars, educators, practitioners, community leaders, and anyone interested.

Explore the program and learn how to volunteer for the event below.

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Ambika Tenneti

Ph.D. Candidate at University of Toronto
Ambika Tenneti is a Ph.D. candidate at the Daniels Faculty, University of Toronto. Her research is focused on recent immigrant engagement in Toronto’s urban forest. An environmentalist by training, she has worked extensively with diverse communities in urban and rural India in the fields of environmental health and education. Since moving to Toronto, she has volunteered with several public and non-profit organizations. Her work with Toronto Green Community’s Rivers Rising and Lost Rivers programs have helped her gain fresh perspectives on urban ecology, community engagement, belonging, and Indigenous land relations. In 2021, she co-authored Nature Canada’s Race and Nature in the City Report investigating youth of colour and their relationship to nature in the city.

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