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A promotional ad for the WSLB’s Speaker Series: Environmental Leaders. The background is a birds-eye view of a thick forest. The foreground says “WSLB Speaker Series Environmental Leaders featuring Hilary Franz, Public Lands Commissioner; Jay Julius, former Chair of the Lummi Nation; Maria Sheldon, Environmental Educator.” “April 30 5pm.” It also features the WSLB logo in the top right hand corner, which is a green silhouette of the State of Washington with a golden pine tree in the center.
Image with sunny fall forest in the background, WSLB logo (green silhouette of Washington state with a gold pine tree in the center) and the words “RELEASE Washington State Leadership Board 5.4.2020” in an off-white square in the foreground.
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WSLB Speaker Series: Environmental Leaders
Led by: Jaida Barrows & Ritika Khanal of the Boundless Washington program
This panel of environmental leaders included:
Former Chairman of the Lummi Nation Jay Julius, and
Environmental Educator Maria Sheldon
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STATE SENATE TO OFFICIALLY HONOR THE BOUNDLESS WASHINGTON OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP PROGRAM FOR YOUTH WITH DISABILITIES
OLYMPIA—Today at noon the Washington State Senate will officially recognize the importance of the Washington State Leadership Board’s outdoor leadership program for young people with disabilities, Boundless Washington, with an official Floor Resolution.
Washington State Leadership Board Logo (green silhouette of Washington State with a gold pine tree silhouette in the center) next to text that says “RELEASE”, “Washington State Leadership Board,” “3.22.2021.”
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WSLB Announces Boundless 2021 student cohort
This month, the Washington State Leadership Board added four new students to Washington State’s outdoor leadership program for young people with disabilities, Boundless Washington. The 2-year program operates through a partnership between the Washington State Leadership Board, a trustee agency of Washington state that specializes in delivering equity-focused leadership programs, and Washington State. In 2020, Boundless Washington was codified into law by the State Legislature.
Master Furukawa from Hwang’s Taekwondo demonstrates an inside block in front of a TV screen displaying the Boundless Washington class over Zoom.
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Our Experience of the Pandemic: Radical Adaptation
When we named Boundless Washington, we had in mind a troupe of enterprising young people hiking up mountains to our sparkling alpine lakes, waking up in sleeping bags in our old growth forests, and speeding down slopes in accessible skis. We had in mind leadership development forged by teamwork and individuals pushing themselves beyond their comfort zones, all in the Great Outdoors.
Then COVID-19 happened.
Washington State Leadership Board Logo (green silhouette of Washington State with a gold pine tree silhouette in the center) next to text that says “RELEASE”, “Washington State Leadership Board,” “5.4.2020.”
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Lt. Governor Habib Announces the 2020 Boundless Washington Cohort
OLYMPIA - Today, Lt. Governor Cyrus Habib announced the names of the fellows selected for the inaugural cohort of Boundless Washington, the state’s new outdoor leadership program for young people with disabilities.
The program was established as a partnership between the Office of the Lt. Governor, the Washington State Leadership Board, and the nationally recognized non-profit organizations Outdoors For All and No Barriers. The two-year fellowship, offered at no cost…
Kristina Brown (left) and Lt. Gov. Cyrus Habib on top of Uhuru Peak, Mount Kilimanjaro. The two are holding up a flag of Washington State beneath the iconic wooden Uhuru Peak sign; Lt. Governor Habib has his fist raised in triumph.
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Pushing limits and possibilities Lt. Gov. Habib summited Kilimanjaro
Because it’s there. You don’t necessarily need to see it to know it’s there—the highest mountain in Africa —Mount Kilimanjaro.
In early September, Washington’s Lt. Gov. Cyrus Habib summited the 19,341 feet Uhuru Peak of Mount Kilimanjaro. The climb was a fundraiser launch for Boundless Washington, a new outdoor leadership program for youth with disabilities. Habib’s office and the Association of Washington Generals (AWG), a service organization comprised of distinguished Washingtonians…
The No Barriers logo (orange swallowtail-shaped flag) above the words “No Barriers Podcast.”
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No Barriers
Lieutenant Governor Cyrus Habib was elected Washington State’s 16th Lieutenant Governor in November 2016 at the age of 35. As Lt. Governor, he is President of the State Senate, serves as Acting Governor whenever Governor Inslee leaves the state and oversees an agency whose key issues include economic development, trade, and higher education. A three-time cancer survivor, Lt. Governor
Habib has been fully blind since age eight. His parents immigrated to the U.S. from Iran before he was born, and he is the first and only Iranian-American to hold statewide elected office in the United States.
Lt. Governor Habib sits on a log in front of an alpine lake at the summit of a hike in the Pacific Northwest.
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Lt. Governor Habib’s Climb For a cause
Washington’s Lt. Gov. Cyrus Habib will be making a personal trip to the highest point in Africa—the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro.
He will be making the most of his climb by raising donations for Boundless Washington, an outdoor leadership development program for young people with physical and sensory disabilities in Washington State. Habib has been blind since a very young age.
Created through a partnership between the Office of the Lt. Governor and the Association of Washington Generals, Boundless Washington is set to launch this winter. The two-year program…