Interview with Wanjira Mathai: Chair, Wangari Maathai Foundation

31/07/2019 49 min

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Episode Synopsis

Wanjira Mathai is an environmental activist and Chair of the Wangari Maathai Foundation. As the daughter of Nobel Peace Laureate Wangari Maathai and Board member of the Green Belt Movement, she is carrying forward her mother's work and is striving to preserve and honor her legacy. Wanjira shares with us what she learned from her mother, how she "keeps at" the work of enviornmental justice and her vision for the Wangari Maathai Foundation (http://www.wangarimaathai.org/). This episode was recoreded at the Aga Kahn Graduate School of Media and Communication (https://akumedia.aku.edu/)and was edited by Dan Adachi ([email protected]). Up/Root jingle performed and written by Selah Piper.