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Youth Leadership Trainings

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Roots & Shoots and the Disney Conservation Fund share a belief that young people can be environmental leaders today. Together, we have hosted a number of youth leadership trainings including Jane Goodall’s Global Youth Summit in 2008 which gathered 100 young environmental leaders from 23 different nations for a week of workshops and activities. In 2006 and 2015, the Jane Goodall Institute and Disney also co-hosted summits for the Roots & Shoots U.S. Roots & Shoots Youth Council USA.

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Shawn Sweeney is a senior director of community engagement at the Jane Goodall Institute and works to create connections among the organizations staff, constituents, supporters and the wider world. Shawn has been involved with the Jane Goodall Institute since 2004 when as a college student he led a group of fellow students in Jane Goodall's Roots & Shoots at the College of Wooster. Shawn has a masters of education in humane education and has been working in service learning and communications with the Jane Goodall Institute since 2007 when he joined the staff.

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