Drew is honored to share with you his conversation with Wawa Gatheru. Wawa’s passion for life and her energy around climate justice is something that everyone should hear. In this episode, Wawa shares this passion while opening up about what an activist means to her, who her community is, and the small steps she took to be able to express herself today. 

Wawa Gatheru is a climate justice storyteller motivated to uplift the voices of those most impacted by the climate crisis. She has become the voice of her generation using the power of social media to share how communities of color and women had been adversely affected by climate change and the racist roots of the environmental movement. Wawa is also the founder of Black Girl Environmentalist, an Erode Scholar at the University of Oxford, a narrative fellow at the All We Can Save Project, 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. She is also the youngest member of the Earth Justice Council and the first black person in history to receive the Rhodes, Truman, and Udall Scholarships.

Join us in this conversation to hear the small steps Wawa Gatheru took to build her community, why they matter to her, and how she became a climate justice storyteller. 

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