Webinar
Biographies of remarkable women: Wangari Maathai
Webinar Series "Women in International Affairs"
fotografie di Barbara Ward, Wangari Maathai, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf , Eleonor Roosevelt, Indira Gandhi, Madeleine Albright, Christine Lagarde
28 October 2022
Start time
5:30 pm
Online
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Organizer:
School of International Studies, University of Trento
Target audience:
Everyone
Attendance:
Online – Registration required
Registration link:
Registration deadline:
28 October 2022, 17:30
Contact details:
events.sis@unitn.it
0461-283105 / 25
Speaker:
Elissavet Tsioumani
Wangari Maathai
Wangari Maathai was a Kenyan political, social and environmental activist and academic, the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize (2004), and the first woman in East and Central Africa to receive a PhD (in veterinary anatomy, University of Nairobi, 1971). She was the founder of the Green Belt Movement, a grassroots organization aiming to mobilize community consciousness for self-determination, justice, poverty reduction, women empowerment and environmental conservation, through tree-planting as a form of radical action.