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Expanding Access and Welcoming Spaces in the Natural World for Underrepresented Communities

During our October 2023 dinner, Carter A. McBride, MBA, PDC shared his wisdom on expanding access and welcoming spaces in the natural world for underrepresented communities. Carter is an avid outdoors person and has been so fortunate to have had an opportunity to reconnect with his soul in natural spaces and places at the wonderful age of 66 years. After over 30 years of being inundated in the American banking, pharmaceutical, and higher-education environments, Carter now embraces those lived experiences and projects to those, willing to listen, to how nature can provide such a phenomenal healing presence both professionally and personally. His goal over the last 10 years has been focused on Experiential Learning and positioning himself with entities that he feels progressively provides “A Sense Of Hope” embracing Natural Spaces as its base.

Bio

Present Engagement

  • The Three SSS’S. LLC.
  • The Sierra Club Washington State Chapter ExCom
  • North Cascades Institute (NCI) – Board of Directors – Vice Chair

Past Engagement

  • Wilderness Awareness School (WAS) – Board of Trustees – Treasurer
  • Outdoor Afro – Board of Directors
  • National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) – Advisory Council Member

Carter is a graduate of Wilderness Awareness School (WAS) – The Immersion, formally The Anake Outdoor School, National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) – Instructor Course, (WMI) Wilderness Medicine Institute – Wilderness First Responder (WFR), Wilderness Risk Management (WRM), Boy Scouts of America (BSA) – Wood Badge Recipient, and a Life Member – Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity

Carter enthusiastically embraces opportunities to collaborate and assist in creating greater access and deeper experiences inspired by one’s curiosity in the natural world for all that are willing to enter. Carter presently makes his home in Twisp, WA, forty miles South of the Canadian Border as the Raven flies and West Seattle, WA.

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