Diversity Week Keynote Speaker

A climate justice storyteller motivated to uplift the voices of those most adversely impacted by the climate crisis, Wanjiku “Wawa” Gatheru, has become a prominent voice of her generation, using the power of social media to share how communities of color and women have been adversely affected by climate change and the racist roots of the environmental movement.

Harnessing her academic background as a Rhodes Scholar and her work as a youth climate activist, Gatheru’s life goal is to help create a climate movement made in the image of all of us. She is the founder and executive director of Black Girl Environmentalist, a Public Voices Fellow on the Climate Crisis at Yale University, and a recent Revolutionary Power Fellow at the US Department of Energy, where she worked under the first-ever Deputy for Energy Justice to integrate energy justice in the federal landscape.

www.wawagatheru.org

Free and open to the public. No reservations required.