This Summer Camp Helps Black Girls Love the Great Outdoors

Working Life is a monthly column in which Texans talk about their jobs. Natalynn Masters, who is 27, leads Camp Founder Girls, a weeklong summer retreat devoted to making nature activities more inclusive.I’m from Arizona. My dad is a wildlife biologist, and we spent a lot of our family time camping, fishing, doing all sorts of things on boats. So I’ve always had a deep love and appreciation for nature and the outdoors. I moved to San Antonio in 2019 and met our executive director, Alex Bailey, who told me about the camp. I was like, “Oh, that’s perfect.”We got our start on the East Side of San Antonio. In 1924 a trailblazer named Mattie Landry became aware of a group of Black girls who were…

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