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Waw Gatheru

How to Make the Environmental Movement Anti-Racist

Apr 22 2021, 17:00 UTC - Apr 22 2021, 18:00 UTC

Apr 22 2021, 13:00 EDT - Apr 22 2021, 14:00 EDT

Hosted by University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Office of Sustainability

Wawa Gatheru will be discussing the history of the environmental movement and how it is connected to racial inequalities and marginalization in the US. She will also be discussing ways to become involved with movement and create change at our campus.

Wanjiku "Wawa" Gatheru is an environmental justice advocate, writer and current graduate student at the University of Oxford. She is a first generation American of Kenyan descent and the first Black person in history to receive the Rhodes, Truman and Udall Scholarships.