ABOUT
Wawa Gatheru is the founder and Executive Director of Black Girl Environmentalist, an organisation dedicated to empowering marginalised groups across environmental disciplines. In 2019, Wawa made history as the first Black person to receive the Rhodes, Truman, and Udall scholarships. Wawa sits on boards and advisory councils for the Environmental Media Association, EarthJustice, Earth/Percent, Climate Power, and Sound Future. For her work, Wawa has been recognised as a Young Futurist by The Root, a Grist 50 FIXER, a Glamour College Woman of the Year, named a Climate Creator to Watch by Pique Action and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and was featured on the January 2023 cover of Vogue.