By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated January 26, 2024
Today is World Environmental Education Day, which has been celebrated every year on January 26 since its inception in 1972. This year, ESSENCE is profiling Wanjiku “Wawa” Gatheru, an Oxford University Rhodes Scholar and the founder of Black Girl Environmentalist.
Despite the fact that many Black women “historically…were explorers and caretakers of the earth, and many still are today,” that’s oftentimes not the image most
