Anthony Khalil, LEJ’s Community Engagement Director, will receive the Environmental Education Award at Bay Nature’s Local Hero Awards on March 31.
The event is an annual gala that provides funding for Bay Nature, an independent nonprofit publication and website that connects people in the San Francisco Bay Area to our natural world and motivates people to solve problems with nature in mind. Click here to learn more information about the awards dinner and Bay Nature’s work!
Anthony has helped countless members to look into nature and do something better for themselves and future generations. We asked Anthony about this award and this recognition. He shared the following,
“I am grateful to be recognized as someone who has been able to contribute to the community in some way. In my 15 years with LEJ, starting as an unpaid intern, I’ve been fortunate to be able to make space for community members to engage with the environment. This was possible due to the elders and environmental justice community that supported me. They taught the core principles of environmental justice, a responsibility to community, the duty of reciprocity, and a reverence for both life and nature.
Literacy for Environmental Justice and Bay Nature are aligned as both want to build an ecologically sustainable and just future. I appreciate Bay Nature’s focus on the intersectionality of people, place, and environment/ecology. As someone who works at that nexus, it’s amazing to work with a publication that also tries to pass on the lived experiences and environmental justice approaches of community members. It’s an honor to be recognized by Bay Nature and the greater Bay Nature community. I hope it spreads more light and resources in our side of town.
Finally, my gratitude to the ancestors and the ones who came before us. And a special shoutout to my family and children, my LEJ family, my Environmental Justice community, my global family, and the fine folks at Bay Nature.”
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