Date: Monday, February 13, 2012. 4:15 PM.
Location: Y2E2, Room 111
Wanjira Mathai, the international liaison for the Nairobi-based Green Belt Movement and daughter of 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner, will speak about her mother’s vision of sustainable development for Kenya Africa, ongoing challenges and the Green Belt Movement’s plans for the future. Wanjira currently serves on the Board of Directors of both the Green Belt Movement and the Wangari Mathai Institute for Peace & Environmental Studies. Wanjira grew up in Kenya, and is a graduate of Hobart William Smith College and graduate schools of Business and Public Health at Emory University. She was a. Program Officer for International Health at the Carter Presidential Center in Atlanta focusing on issues of disease eradication. Since 2002, Ms. Mathai has been directing International Affairs at the Green Belt Movement, (http://www.greenbeltmovement.org/) which was founded by her mother, the noted leader and late Nobel Peace Laureate Wangari Maathai.
Location: Y2E2, Room 111
Wanjira Mathai, the international liaison for the Nairobi-based Green Belt Movement and daughter of 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner, will speak about her mother’s vision of sustainable development for Kenya Africa, ongoing challenges and the Green Belt Movement’s plans for the future. Wanjira currently serves on the Board of Directors of both the Green Belt Movement and the Wangari Mathai Institute for Peace & Environmental Studies. Wanjira grew up in Kenya, and is a graduate of Hobart William Smith College and graduate schools of Business and Public Health at Emory University. She was a. Program Officer for International Health at the Carter Presidential Center in Atlanta focusing on issues of disease eradication. Since 2002, Ms. Mathai has been directing International Affairs at the Green Belt Movement, (http://www.greenbeltmovement.org/) which was founded by her mother, the noted leader and late Nobel Peace Laureate Wangari Maathai.