Community, Gratitude, and Belonging
The safety and well-being of our students and leaders is Overland’s highest priority. Overland is committed to fostering a supportive, inclusive, and welcoming community on trips.
- We recognize that the outdoor industry has been historically exclusive to marginalized groups, and we are working to broaden access through thoughtful and intentional leader and student recruitment.
- We express immense gratitude for the opportunity to travel through the ancestral and modern-day homelands of indigenous peoples around the world, and respectfully acknowledge that Overland’s office stands on the ancestral homelands of the Stockbridge-Munsee Mohicans, who are the indigenous peoples of the region now called Williamstown. We aim to honor these groups by teaching our students about these landscapes and the importance of respectful and inclusive outdoor recreation.
- Our hiring and admissions processes are holistic in nature and aim to give individuals the opportunity to explore and celebrate their intersecting identities in a supportive, uplifting environment.
We seek to create spaces for our students and leaders to learn, grow, and understand each other and the wider world.
