Peace in the Wild® was founded in 2021 by Taylor Crenshaw and is an environmental justice movement helping Black people reconnect with nature as an act of reclamation.

For generations, nature was a place of danger, labor, and survival for Black people. Even when nature became a refuge or escape for our ancestors, it demanded that they keep moving, hiding, and holding fear.

Our work today is rooted in a theology of reclamation that sees our relationship with nature as an interconnected spiritual practice of liberation for people, land, and all creation. We believe that when Black people play, rest, and explore outdoors with nothing demanded of us, it’s a sacred act of resistance to the very systems meant to keep us in bondage. Every moment we spend outside freely turns land that once held our labor into land that holds our freedom.

Through retreats, outdoor education, conservation, and skill-building recreation, we create space for Black people to return to the land, themselves, and their communities. Unequal access to the outdoors is an injustice, and we answer it by showing up.