BIPOC Birding Club of Wisconsin creates an outdoor community for Black, Brown and Indigenous birdwatchers in the Madison and Milwaukee areas. The club is built on values of diversity, equity and inclusion, cultivating safe spaces where BIPOC folks and allies may connect over shared love for birds, hiking and fresh air. All ages and experience levels are welcome.Jeff Galligan and Dexter Patterson are co-founders of BIPOC Birding Club of Wisconsin. Galligan has been a birder for decades, long bothered by the lack of diversity in birding. “I had been thinking about forming something related to getting people of color out birding for a while,” he explains. “With the confluence of the pandemic and its isolation along with the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery and the Central Park incident with Christian Cooper I made the decision to reach out to Dexter Patterson in June of 2021. The rest has been history and we have not looked back since.”...
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