Wawa Gatheru

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“Wawa” Gatheru is an environmental justice advocate hailing from Kenya and Connecticut. She graduated magna cum laude from the University of Connecticut in 2020 with a Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Studies and a minor in Urban and Community Studies. Currently, she is a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford studying environmental governance.

Wawa has written several pieces regarding intersectional environmentalism, with bylines in Glamour Magazine and VICE News. In early 2021, Wawa founded Black Girl Environmentalist, an intergenerational community of Black girls, women and non-binary environmentalists. She is currently a co-host on‘The Green TableTalks’ an intergenerational series centering Black and Latinx perspectives on environmental topics. She is also currently a Revolutionary Power Fellow at the US Department of Energy.