Wawa Gatheru: Keynote speaker for 2022 MLKjr Day festivities

Wanjiku “Wawa” Gatheru is an environmental justice advocate hailing from Kenya and Connecticut. She graduated magna cum laude from the University of Connecticut in 2020 with a Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Studies and a minor in Urban and Community Studies. Currently, she is a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford studying environmental governance.

Wawa spoke as the keynote speaker for Williams Colleges’ Martin Luther King jr. day festivities.