resources for students

Hazel Johnson Robert Ballard

Olga Bautista Dorceta Taylor

Kim Wasserman Carolyn Finney

Cheryl Johnson David Naguib Pellow

Gina Ramirez Kyle Powys Whyte

Marian Byrnes Kandi White

• Volunteer with

  • FPDCC - Forest Preserve District of Cook County

  • FOTFP - Friends of the Forest Preserves

  • Chicago Park District

  • The Nature Conservancy IL, or IN

  • Shirley Heinze Land Trust

  • Audubon Great Lakes (esp at Indian Ridge Marsh)

  • Indiana Dunes National Park

  • The Wetlands Initiative

  • Friends of Big Marsh

• Groups with local parks/restoration-related events and info: Calumet Outdoors, Habitat 2030, Out in Nature (and IG here), Outdoor Afro (chicago)

• Check Chicago Environmental Network job board, Greencorps Chicago, Chicago Wilderness job board, or employment at any of the orgs above, for on-the-ground restoration work!

• Committee on Environment, Geography and Urbanization

  • LinkedIn group for ENST majors and alums (great for networking!)

• UChicago ECo

• Green Careers via Career Advancement

• UChicago Green Fund

• UChicago Environmental Alliance (UCEA)

  • Phoenix Sustainability Initiative

• Chicago Studies

• Office of Sustainability

• Environmental Frontiers: Campus (EF Campus)

• Committee on Campus Sustainability

• Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation

• Society for Ecological Restoration job + internship board

• Chicagoland Environmental Network job, internship, volunteering board

• UChicago Green Careers

• Chicago Wilderness career resources with 1 million links and a job board with current openings

• LinkedIn group for Program on the Global Environment where you can network with alums and see cool jobs posted

• Zooniverse

  • I do this one from Mohonk Preserve

  • The Chicago wildlife camera traps can be exciting

• SciStarter

• Plants of Concern (hosted by Chicago Botanic Garden and executed on your favorite Chicago Wilderness public land)

• Project Budburst (hosted by Chicago Botanic Garden and executed anywhere)

• Lists of more programs: 

  • at Field Museum

  • in Illinois

  • all over!