What does it mean to be Black and be Green? While the murder of George Floyd struck at the heart of America’s unreconciled past concerning systemic racism, the experience had by Christian Cooper in Central Park ignited conversation within the environmental sector. In this moment of racial reckoning, Dr. Carolyn Finney comes home to name and claim her family’s story of love, labor, and erasure on the land in New York. Weaving stories of our collective past with the personal, she employs humor, truth-telling & some old school chutzpah as she calls out the “father of conservation” in order to call us all into a new relationship with nature and each other. She invites you to come and explore with her the power of reconciliation, accountability, and emergence, and participate in dreaming up a new conversation…