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title: "Environmental Leadership: Outdoor Afro Elevates Wildnote App"
description: Leaders of Outdoor Afro comprise the first all-Black U.S. expedition to Mount Kilimanjaro. They used the Wildnote app to track wildlife and vegetation.
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# [Environmental Leadership: Outdoor Afro Elevates Wildnote App](https://blog.wildnoteapp.com/environmental-leadership-outdoor-afro-elevates-wildnote-app)

 Written by [Anita Henry](https://blog.wildnoteapp.com/author/anita-henry) | May 25, 2018 8:02:00 AM

#### **First U.S. All-Black Expedition To Ascend Mount Kilimanjaro In June**

Rue Mapp just wanted to have fun outdoors. When she couldn’t find a peer group to play with, she created one! Her natural spirit of leadership gave birth to [Outdoor Afro](http://outdoorafro.com), “a group designed to connect Black people with nature and change the face of leadership in the outdoors.” Leadership is what excites Mapp most about her organization.

Born as a blog in Oakland, California in 2009, Mapp’s seed of inspiration has grown into a dynamic nationwide outdoor leadership network that is about to make history by sending the first all-Black [expedition team](http://outdoorafro.com/2018/02/meet-the-kilimanjaro-team/) from the U.S. (support staff, porters, and climbers) to ascend Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. The team is comprised of extra-ordinary Americans who, like Mapp, simply decided to do something.

 

*Outdoor Afro Kilimanjaro expedition co-leader, Katina Grays*

[View full post](https://blog.wildnoteapp.com/environmental-leadership-outdoor-afro-elevates-wildnote-app)

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