Simone Maddox, Bird Watcher-

The inaugural Black Birders Week was held May 31 - June 5. It came off the heels of a viral racist incident in Central Park where a white woman called the police on Christian Cooper, a Black man who was birding and asked her to leash up her dog (which is the law). That evening George Floyd was killed on 38th and Chicago in Minneapolis.

Simone Maddox, a second year PhD student in Keith Barker’s lab, participated in Black Birders Week. Maddox also works closely with Professor Sharon Jansa and Associate Professor and Breckenridge Chair of Ornithology for the Bell Museum Sushma Reddy, dubbing the three groups, a “supergroup.” Follow her on Twitter @mone_maddox.

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