
Sydney Murray is a rising second year student interested in outdoor education, especially for youth of color. She has worked as a Field Instructor with the Wasatch Mountain Institute (WMI) for the past academic year and is developing an outdoor education program with WMI, Outdoor Afro, and CurlyMe! for Black girls in Utah. This summer, she's returning home to Virginia to lead a participatory action research project on outdoor and nature-based education programs for Black youth in Richmond, Virginia.