Session 3: Community Involvement

November 4, 2025 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

    • Track 1

    About Session

    Sessions 3 and 4 will be held concurrently at 4pm. Attendees will be able to join either session through a breakout room.


    Session 3: Community Involvement

    Learn some of the innovative ways Friends and FWS staff are ensuring that refuges are community assets enjoyed and valued by a broad population individuals and groups.

    Angie Horn: National Wildlife Refuge Association; Suzanne Trapp: Urban Outreach Coordinator – Retired; Ken Kupchak: Friends of Oahu Refuges;

    Friends’ groups play an important role in helping build relationships and partnerships with communities, neighbors, schools, and organizations.  Learn how Friends and Service staff are building community relations – ensuring that refuges and hatcheries are welcoming and valued community assets, expanding wildlife dependent recreation use and helping those unfamiliar with the out of doors become nature enthusiasts.

    Speakers

    Angie Horn

    Angie Horn

    Urban Wildlife Program Director, National Wildlife Refuge Association
    Ken Kupchak

    Ken Kupchak

    President, Friends of Oahu NWRs & CORFA Board
    Suzanne Trapp

    Suzanne Trapp

    Community Outreach Manager at Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge - Retired
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    Join us for the first Virtual Friends Conference!

    Nov. 4th + 5th, 2 – 6pm ET

    Don’t miss out on:

    1. Helpful learning sessions and workshops
    2. Inspiring keynote speakers
    3. Networking opportunities with Friends from around the country