Chicago Botanic Garden

The Chicago Botanic Garden (CBG) will implement a professional development program that builds staff capacity to understand the principles and benefits of equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility (EDIA). Project activities will include hiring a consultant to lead staff training, partnering with community organizations to incorporate EDIA principles into CBG’s interpretative framework, piloting and evaluating three new exhibitions that highlight non-dominant populations, and establishing new processes to create future exhibitions, programs, and communications. The project activities will result in staff who better understands how people of different backgrounds and abilities learn and engage with their environments, ultimately benefiting visitors and program participants.