My Nonprofit Reviews

Stroud has a broad range of approaches to water education and stewardship that ticks the boxes of social and environmental justice in the frame of science. They partner with and provide individuals and organization stakeholders of localized initiatives as instructors and as a source of technical instrumentation, data management, platforms for community communication, and as standard bearers for the entire field of citizen science water education and stewardship. Their work with Indigenous communities is particularly sensitive to sovereignty and self-determination while filling a gap in the direct, fieldwork education, and follow-up that is so deeply needed in marginalized communities.

Working with Stroud as a community volunteer has extended my understanding of and capacity for engaging in the health and maintenance of waterways, and has offered me opportunities to exercise my own expertise within their umbrella of vast community outreach.