Posts by WEA Team
We’re ready for action
This International Women’s Day, please join us in taking action alongside grassroots women leaders who are caring for our communities—saving indigenous seeds, selling clean cookstoves, launching sustainable farms, providing safe water, protecting land rights, and more—in some of the most environmentally threatened regions on earth. Gather (virtually) with us at one of our special International Women’s Day…
Read MoreCelebrating Black women leaders in the environmental movement
For generations, Black women have built a movement around community and climate resilience. In the face of racial injustice, gender inequity, economic disparities and disproportionate environmental impacts, Black women have forged a path which recognizes that justice in any form requires justice in all forms, and a thriving earth requires thriving communities. In the 1970’s…
Read MoreWEA Women speak out on unity, hope and what’s next
Things feel different today than they did at the start of this month. While the events of early January prove there is still tremendous work to be done to heal our fractured communities and threatened environment—from both the immediate hardships we face as well as the legacies of injustice and environmental destruction—we are breathing a bit…
Read MoreU.S. set to rejoin the Paris Agreement
With this months’ shift in leadership came some long-awaited shifts in policy as well. Within the first few hours of taking office, President Joe Biden recommitted the U.S. to the Paris Climate Agreement, permanently stalled the Keystone XL pipeline, and ordered federal agencies to start reviewing and reinstating more than 100 environmental regulations that had…
Read MoreSay hello to our Spring Interns: Hi Kiya!
Name: Kiya Leake Role at WEA: Programs + Operations Intern Hometown: Los Angeles Fun Fact: Being on an amateur baking show is on my bucket list. I might have to move to Britain. Why did you want to intern with WEA? I wanted to be able to be surrounded by a diverse group of women…
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