Wanjiku Gatheru

Wawa Gatheru is a GenZ environmental justice advocate and Rhodes Scholar passionate about cultivating a climate movement made in the image of all of us. She is the founder & Executive Director of Black Girl Environmentalist, a national community dedicated to empowering Black girls, women and non-binary people in the climate movement. Wawa has earned a BA in Environmental Studies and a Master’s in Environmental Governance at the University of Oxford. She sits on boards and advisory councils for EarthJustice, Climate Power, the Environmental Media Association, the National Parks Conservation Association, Earth/Percent, and Sound Future. In January of 2023, musician Billie Eilish personally invited Wawa to join her on the first ever digital cover of Vogue alongside 7 other youth climate activists. Wawa has been recognized as a a Grist 50 FIXER, a Glamour College Woman of the Year, a Young Futurist by The Root, named a Climate Creator to Watch by Pique Action and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and has spoken about her work across the country.

Empowering Black girls, women and non-binary people in the climate movement