POCO is honored to have been awarded the Walk Star Award in 2026!
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I'm honored to have been nominated to be one of four finalists for KOIN 6 Remarkable Women of the Year, 2026!
POCO is honored to be featured in an edition of OPB's Oregon Field Guide! 2025:
TEDx 2025 Announcement!
I am so honored to tell you that on April 12, 2025, I was able to stand on the TEDx stage at the University of the Pacific to share a message that is very close to my heart: Children as environmental champions. This talk explored how powerful the leadership of children can be during our time of climate change and environmental crisis.
TEDx is all about spreading ideas that inspire, challenge, and transform perspectives.
https://www.pacific.edu/tedx/speakers/2025
Pamela Slaughter and People of Color Outdoors are honored to have been featured in a film produced by the amazing Chad Brown. The film shares three short stories as told from the perspective of BIPOC environmental leaders in Oregon. It is a traveling exhibit that launched in June, 2024 at the Tillamook Forestry Center.
2024 - POCO is excited and honored to have been one of eight chosen by Adidas to receive nine months of mentoring, financial support, networking and education designed to accelerate our progress in reaching our long term goals! Thank you, Adidas! https://www.linkedin.com/posts/adidas_our-adidas-community-lab-has-officially-launched-activity-7135288812779319296-R8Nc/
People of Color Outdoors is proud to have been featured on OPB's Oregon Field Guide in 2024! We're honored to know that our efforts to make the Columbia Slough more inclusive and accessible for everyone!
https://youtu.be/g3boehO8Bfs?si=GeCl_RMzZ5Zko7iZ
We're so grateful for the recognition of our efforts!
2023 - Pamela Slaughter is honored to have been featured in the Oregon Historical Society's exhibition video, OHS Birds of The Pacific Coast Exhibition Video!
2022 - THE FIRST ANNUAL JOEY POPE AWARD FOR INNOVATIVE PARKS LEADERSHIP WON BY PAMELA SLAUGHTER, FOUNDER AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF PEOPLE OF COLOR OUTDOORS!
2022 - THE FIRST ANNUAL JOEY POPE AWARD FOR INNOVATIVE PARKS LEADERSHIP WON BY PAMELA SLAUGHTER, FOUNDER AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF PEOPLE OF COLOR OUTDOORS!
People of Color Outdoors and Pamela Slaughter were both nominated for the award, which included a prize of $10,000 and a year of technical assistance! Pamela Slaughter was deeply honored to have won the award.
People of Color Outdoors and Pamela Slaughter were both nominated for the award, which included a prize of $10,000 and a year of technical assistance! Pamela Slaughter was deeply honored to have won the award.
Over the years, Pamela and her advisors have evolved POCO from simple meet-ups for people of color to a growing program of environmental and cultural education. Since inception, POCO has hosted over 450 outings including hiking, birding, canoeing, snowshoeing, biking and camping and more. As POCO continues to grow, Pamela has added a nature education program for children grades pre-K through 5th called the People of Color Guardians. The POCO Guardians program is open during Winter, Spring and Summer breaks.
"POCO is family friendly, not just for adults. So we're teaching these littles from a young age, to teens about nature, enjoying nature, the importance of preserving nature, about protecting animals."
-POCO Parent
"There's a peace that comes from, spending time in the environment, and there's a peace that comes from spending time with like minded folks. Spending time with people who might be going through the same issues."
-POCO Parent
MORE IN 2024
MORE IN 2024
This edition of OPB's Think Out Loud segment featured POCO Founder, Pamela Slaughter!
People of Color Outdoors is proud to have been featured on KGW news in 2024! We are grateful to Jon Goodman and Get Out There! for sharing our story with a wider audience. Thank you for recognizing our efforts to make the outdoors more inclusive and accessible for all. #PeopleOfColorOutdoors #KGWNews #Inclusion #Diversity #Accessibility
https://youtu.be/CywElQDSZv4?si=dcG2kxfSxm0nW7AO
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