In conversation with Vanessa Nakate
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Zinhle Essamuah
NBC
Correspondent
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Vanessa Nakate
Rise Up Movement
Founder
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Vanessa Nakate
Rise Up Movement
Founder
Description
Vanessa Nakate, 26, is a Ugandan climate justice activist and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. Inspired by Greta Thunberg, she was Uganda's first youth climate striker, and went on to found the Rise Up Movement - a movement of young people protesting for climate action across Africa. In 2020, Vanessa received global attention after being cropped out of a press photo, taken with other white climate activists, at the World Economic Forum. She now campaigns internationally to highlight the impacts of climate change already playing out on the continent. Vanessa is the author of ‘A Bigger Picture’.
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