TBG U: Environmental Justice 101
Therapy for Black Girls
iHeartPodcasts and Joy Harden Bradford, Ph.D.
4.8 • 5.8K Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Congratulations, you’ve been accepted into the inaugural class of Therapy for Black Girls University. Whether packing for a new year on campus, thinking through your gap year, enrolling in a community college, or grabbing your stoles for graduation, TBG U is here to help you thrive at this stage of your life and beyond.
Last year, videos of a flooding at Clark Atlanta University went viral. I know I’m not the only one who sees videos like these and wonders how the climate crisis will continue to impact me and my friends who are in college.
To help mitigate some of the anxiety I’m sure we all have around the climate crisis, I’m joined today by Gen Z climate activist, Wawa Gatheru. Wawa is the founder and executive director of Black Girl Environmentalist, the largest national organization dedicated to empowering Black girls and women in the climate movement.
She has been recognized as a Glamour College Woman of the Year, a Forbes 30 under 30 recipient, and was featured on the January 2023 cover of Vogue alongside Billie Eilish and 7 other climate activists.
In our conversation today, Wawa breaks down some key terms relevant to the climate crisis, ways we can get involved with the environmental justice movement on our campuses, and why it’s important for college students in particular to care about climate change.
Where to Find Wawa
HOMEWORK
- Find out if your university has a sustainability office on campus. If not, explore opportunities with your professors to create one!
- Get involved with your campus climate club, or find a local one in your neighborhood.
- Work with your family, friends, and neighbors to create a climate plan in the case of an emergency.
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Our Production Team
Executive Producers: Dennison Bradford & Maya Cole Howard
Producers: Fredia Lucas & Ellice Ellis
Production Intern: Zariah Taylor
TBG University Host & Coordinator: Jayna Ellis
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Congratulations, you've been accepted into the inaugural class of therapy for Black Girls University, |
| 0:08.0 | whether packing for a new year on campus, thinking through your gap year, enrolling in a community college, or grabbing |
| 0:15.7 | your souls for graduation, TBU is here to help you thrive at this stage of your life and beyond. |
| 0:30.0 | Hi, I'm Zaria Taylor and I'm the TPG Podcast Production Intern. We'll return to Jaina right after the break. Last year videos of flooding at Clark Atlanta University went viral. I know I'm not the only one who |
| 0:56.2 | sees videos like these and wonders how the climate crisis will continue to impact me and my |
| 1:01.9 | friends who are in college. |
| 1:04.2 | To help mitigate some of the anxiety I'm sure we all have around the climate crisis, |
| 1:08.6 | I'm joined today by Gen Z climate activist Wawa Gathiru. |
| 1:13.0 | Wawa is the founder and executive director of Black Girl Environmentalists, the largest national |
| 1:19.2 | organization dedicated to empowering black girls and women in the climate movement. |
| 1:24.0 | She has been recognized as a Glamour College woman of the year, |
| 1:28.0 | a Forbes 30 under 30 recipient, |
| 1:31.0 | and was featured on the January 2023 cover of Vogue alongside Billy |
| 1:36.0 | Eilish and seven other climate activists. In our conversation today |
| 1:39.9 | Wawa breaks down some key terms relevant to the climate crisis. |
| 1:44.0 | Ways we can get involved with the environmental justice movement on our campuses |
| 1:48.0 | and why it's important for college students in particular to care about climate change. |
| 1:53.4 | Here's our conversation. |
| 1:54.6 | Thank you, Wawa for being with us today. |
| 2:02.3 | You are a climate storyteller and founder of Black Girl Environmentalists. |
| 2:07.0 | I would love to hear the story behind the birth of Black Girl Environmentalists and how your journey into the world of climate |
| 2:14.8 | action began could you walk us through that? Yeah for sure well first thank you so |
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