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WAWA GATHERU

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Wawa Gatheru is the Founder and Executive Director of Black Girl Environmentalist, a youth-led nonprofit organization working to empower the next generation of Black women and gender expansive climate leaders.

Upon learning about the severity of the climate crisis at age 15, Wawa made the decision to dedicate her life to climate justice. After nearly a decade in the climate space, she could not help but notice that while Black girls and women experience the brunt of environmental injustice, they were amongst the least resourced or platformed in the climate movement. Wawa soon founded Black Girl Environmentalist, a national organization with the mission to address the pathway and retention issue in the climate sector for women of color.

Now with over 2,000+ members and 14 chapters across the US, Black Girl Environmentalist has been recognized by Forbes as one of the largest Black-youth-led organizations in the country. In the last year, Black Girl Environmentalist has redistributed over $100,000 to young Black women professionals to alleviate barriers to green internships, academic programs, and conferences.

A Rhodes Scholar, Wawa has been recognized as a Forbes 30 under 30 recipient, a Climate Creator to Watch by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and is an inaugural member of the National Environmental Youth Advisory Council of the US EPA, the first federal youth-led advisory board in US History.

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