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The 2025 New Horizons in Conservation Convening invites professionals, practitioners, students, recruiters, and vendors to Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut to explore urgent issues in the environmental field. The convening will focus on diversity in environmental institutions, environmental justice, food insecurity and sovereignty, climate and energy justice, outdoor experiences, future leadership in the environmental movement, and more. It will bring together students, academics, researchers, and professionals from diverse backgrounds to give talks, participate in workshops, attend field trips, meet local leaders, and network with each other.

The convening will be held on campus in the Yale School of the Environment, the newly renovated Yale Peabody Museum, and at the Omni New Haven Hotel at Yale. Renowned environmental justice professionals and activists, academicians, leaders from the food sovereignty movement, authors, leaders of local and national environmental organizations, and government policymakers will be in attendance. Participants and alumni of diversity pathway programs such as the Yale Conservation Scholars - Early Leadership Initiative and Environmental Fellows Program will also be there.

Leah Penniman's Keynote will be scheduled for Friday, May 9, 2025 at 10:00 - 11:20am followed by a book signing at 1:00 - 2:30pm.