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Vanessa Nakate

Vanessa Nakate
VANESSA NAKATE is founder of the Rise Up climate movement and the Vash Green Schools Project, which aims to install solar panels on all of Uganda's 24,000 schools. She has spearheaded the Save Congo Rainforest campaign. The United Nations named her a Young Leader for the Sustainable Development Goals in 2020, and Time magazine named her to its Time100 Next list in 2021.


How the Associated Press Erased the Voice of a Climate Justice Activist—and an Entire Continent

Vanessa Nakate on Arctic Basecamp, Davos, and Getting Cropped Out of a Major News Photo
November 8, 2021  By Vanessa Nakate
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