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Outdoor Allies: Miguel Marquez

Ever wondered how you can do more for public lands but you aren’t sure where to start? Outdoor Alliance’s Outdoor Allies series explores how other outdoor adventurers got their start in advocacy work and their advice for how you can harness your passion for the outdoors into advocacy for the land and water you love. Miguel A. Marquez is the Urban Refuge Ranger for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service at the San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge Complex, where he builds future stewards of our public lands.

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Outdoor Allies: Zenovia Stephens

Ever wondered how you can do more for public lands but you aren’t sure where to start? Outdoor Alliance’s Outdoor Allies series explores how other outdoor adventurers got their start in advocacy work and their advice for how you can harness your passion for the outdoors into advocacy for the land and water you love. Zenovia Stephens runs Black Adventure Crew and Black Kids Adventure Inc, and she co-founded Black Hikers Week. She lives in Alabama with her family.

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Outdoor Allies: Ángel Peña

Ever wondered how you can do more for public lands but you aren’t sure where to start? Outdoor Alliance’s Outdoor Allies series explores how other outdoor adventurers got their start in advocacy work and their advice for how you can harness your passion for the outdoors into advocacy for the land and water you love. A first generation American, Ángel is a proud father of three, an avid memory maker with his friends and family and President of the Nuestra Tierra Conservation Project.

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Outdoor Allies: Annie Nyborg

Ever wondered how you can do more for public lands but you aren’t sure where to start? Outdoor Alliance’s Outdoor Allies series explores how other outdoor adventurers got their start in advocacy work and their advice for how you can harness your passion for the outdoors into advocacy for the land and water you love. Annie Nyborg is Director of Sustainability for Peak Design and has been involved in advocacy work for about four years. She lives in Ojai, California.

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Outdoor Allies: Maria Povec

Ever wondered how you can do more for public lands but you aren’t sure where to start? Outdoor Alliance’s Outdoor Allies series explores how other outdoor adventurers got their start in advocacy work and their advice for how you can harness your passion for the outdoors into advocacy for the land and water you love. Maria Povec is a Mainer back in her natural habitat, and a long-time advocate diving into state government as a Senior Policy Analyst in the Maine Governor’s Policy and Planning Office, called the “Office of Innovation and the Future.”

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