Why join CBF Student Leadership?
Learn Outside. Expand your knowledge of watershed issues through immersive outdoor field experiences and interaction with regional experts.
Action. Earn service-learning hours during hands-on restoration events and community engagement opportunities.
Advocacy. Promote watershed issues that are meaningful to you and support the legislative process by meeting with representatives and decisionmakers.
Awareness. Build leadership skills, access resources, and make positive change in your community with support from CBF.
How does it work?
- The program operates year-round and is open to high school students living within the Chesapeake Bay watershed.
- Student Leaders gain a deeper understanding of watershed issues during virtual and in-person programming.
- Student Leaders engage with decisionmakers, scientists, industry professionals, artists, and regional experts to better understand environmental policy, protection, and conservation.
- Student Leaders select an issue impacting their community, then develop and implement evidence-based solutions using a Student Action Plan or SAPling.
Commitment to Include all Voices.
Whether you are just beginning your environmental stewardship journey or are well into your trek, we welcome all to join our coalition. We aim to bring emerging leaders from diverse backgrounds, cultures, ethnicities, identities, and races to the decision-making space as we work to ensure all individuals have access to clean water, clean air, healthy communities, and a saved Bay.
Contact us using this form or call 410-268-8816.
Student Leadership Affiliates
The Chesapeake Bay Foundation Student Leadership Program combines two of CBF's organizational strengths: education and advocacy. Ultimately, our goal is to foster lifelong engaged, ecological citizens. We would like to honor and recognize the following programs and schools that do the same, allowing students to realize their connection to the environmental world and empowering them to act on its behalf. They are our CBF Student Leadership Affiliates.
Student Leadership Highlights
Podcasts
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Growing Up Tangier
25 Oct 2016 Episode 42 | 18:04CBF President Will Baker talks with 16-year-old Isaiah McCready about life on the Chesapeake Bay's historic Tangier Island.
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Future Farmers, Future Bay Savers
27 Sep 2016 Episode 40 | 18:28CBF President Will Baker and Student Leadership Manager Lane Whigham talk about a new program that provides conservation mentoring for future farmers in Pennsylvania.
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Clear Water
22 Dec 2015 Episode 20 | 00:32:01In this episode, CBF President Will Baker talks with staff educators Jocelyn Tuttle, of the Baltimore Harbor program, and Sam Eckert, from the residential program at Port Isobel near Tangier Island, about some of the exciting things they’re seeing out on the water with students.
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Blog:
- Planting Roots in the Bay by Brianna Akuamoah-Boateng
- One 'Really Empowering' Trip to Richmond
- The Next Generation Speaks Up
- One Amazing Week and the Next 50 Years
- The World Is Your Oyster by Matthew Talley (external site)
Audio: The Beauty of the Bay a poem by Garrett Chiaramonte
Action: Hellbender Campaign CBF's Pennsylvania Student Leadership Council drafts legislation to make the Eastern hellbender the Commonwealth's state amphibian.
