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## [LEADER SERIES: Travel Oregon’s Hilary Sager](https://blog.orei.oregonstate.edu/leader-series-travel-oregons-hilary-sager)

 February 1, 2021

 For Hilary Sager, Destination Development Manager with Travel Oregon, leadership is about rising to the moment, no matter what your title may be. In this time of social justice reckoning, that means asking big questions about how recreation and tourism can be part of creating a more equitable world.

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## [Land and Water Conservation Fund Top 11 Projects](https://blog.orei.oregonstate.edu/lwcf-top-11-projects)

 December 22, 2020

 With the passage of the Great American Outdoors Act (GAOA), the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) now has a guaranteed source for $900 million in mandatory annual funding for outdoor recreation and conservation projects across the nation. That’s great news, but it also raises big questions about the best way to invest those much-needed funds. The Outdoor Recreation Roundtable (ORR).

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## [LEADER SERIES: Vámanos Outside creator Zavier Borja](https://blog.orei.oregonstate.edu/leader-series-zavier-borja)

 December 7, 2020

 Zavier Borja’s capstone project for OREI’s inaugural Leadership program didn’t just build on his already impressive leadership skills—it also helped school kids in Bend rebuild connections to the outdoors that had been lost in the COVID shutdown.

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