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Angela Burlile

Angela Burlile

Angela Burlile (pronouns she/her) was born in South Korea and raised in the beautiful mountains surrounding the Matanuska-Susitna Valley in Alaska. Upon completing her degree at Western Washington University in Political Science, Angela moved back to South Korea and spent six years teaching. Returning to Washington in 2015, Angela attended the North Cascades Institute Graduate Residency Program through Huxley College of the Environment at Western Washington University. She graduated with a M.Ed. in Environmental Education and certificates in Nonprofit Leadership and Administration and Northwest Natural History. During her time in graduate school, Angela was struck by the homogeneity that persists in the environmental education profession and turned to social justice education to understand and identify processes through which structural inequities are maintained, reproduced, challenged, and transformed in the environmental field. Joining the Doris Duke Conservation Scholars Program at the University of Washington in April 2018, Angela remains energized and inspired by the community she has found with staff and scholars.

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The Conservation Scholars Fund directly supports students who are pursuing a career in conservation through the Doris Duke Conservation Scholars Program at the University of Washington. Effective conservation strategies are inclusive, involving a diversity of stakeholders and incorporating multiple values. Yet, the conservation community does not reflect the collective voice of our country. Without a significant, serious and immediate increase in diversity and inclusion, the conservation community will become a movement of the past instead of a guiding principle of the future. Our program aims to change that.