“Allow your passion to become your purpose, and it will one day become your profession.”

-Gabrielle Bernstein

In 2015, Nicole Rojas began volunteering with the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) and Tusk Task Force to advocate for Illinois legislation to ban the sale and trade of elephant ivory and rhino horn. The bill was passed after three years of advocacy and meetings with legislators. Shortly thereafter, Nicole assisted HSUS at the state level in enacting comprehensive Illinois legislation that bans the sale and trade of wildlife parts from all endangered species in perpetuity.

Nicole established Wild For Change in 2018 with a mission to raise awareness of nature’s intrinsic value for all life on Earth and inspire action to safeguard this larger living world we are all part of.

Wild For Change uses a multifaceted approach to raise awareness of our interconnected relationship with the rest of nature. Since its inception, Wild For Change has advocated for legislation that protects wildlife and the natural world at both the state and federal levels. Through social media and the Wild For Change blog, the organization explores our connection with the larger living world, the essential systems that sustain life, and the inherent value of the more-than-human beings with whom we share our planet.

The Wild For Change podcast spotlights individuals and organizations working to create positive change for animals and the natural world. Nicole also speaks publicly to help rekindle our relationship with the rest of nature, inviting audiences to recognize its inherent worth, understand our place within it, and explore ways to restore a more reciprocal relationship with the living world.

Guided by her deep love of nature, Nicole became a certified Forest Therapy Guide through the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy. Through guided forest therapy walks, she invites others to slow down, awaken their senses, and reconnect with the larger living world—creating space for the wisdom, inspiration, beauty, and peace that can emerge when we deepen our relationship with nature.

Ready to slow down and reconnect? Sign up for a guided forest therapy walk with Nicole here.

Wild For Change envisions a world where all of nature is valued and respected, and where we recognize that we are not separate from nature, but part of the larger living world.

Through this understanding, Wild For Change seeks to inspire greater care, responsibility, reciprocity, and collective action to protect, preserve, and restore the rest of nature for generations to come.