The 2024 NNA Community Meeting will take place during March 5-7, 2024 in Washington, DC, jointly hosted by the NNA-CO and George Washington University (GW) and held at the University Student Center on GW’s Foggy Bottom campus.

The Navigating the New Arctic Community Office (NNA-CO) builds awareness, partnerships, opportunities, and resources for collaboration and equitable knowledge generation within, between, and beyond the research projects funded by NSF’s Navigating the New Arctic (NNA) Initiative. In this presentation, we will review how the NNA-CO incorporates a focus on equity and inclusion in its values, architecture, governance, and activities, reflecting critically on the challenges confronting collaborative and co-production research within NNA.

The changing polar environments have created important scientific and societal concerns in high and lower latitudes. In this session we will share effective approaches, frameworks and examples of how to promote a broad understanding and awareness of the changing Arctic and the related societal implications. The session will highlight effective strategies to inspire learners in both formal and informal learning contexts as well as communities.