Black Girl Environmentalist

🎊Presenting Black Girl Environmentalist’s inaugural College Mentorship Program Cohort!!🎊 This group of mentees represent a wide range of colleges, disciplines, backgrounds, and experiences. They all share a passion for creating a just climate future and impactful careers. 👩🏾💼👩🏿🔬👩🏾🎨 Each BGE mentee is paired with a well-seasoned mentor who will work with them on their personal goals. 🫱🏾🫲🏿Over the next week we will share more about each ambitious mentees background and interest! 🎉🎉

Our DC HUB has been on a roll! Two weeks ago, our DC HUB hosted their second event of the year, an interpretive hike through Rock Creek Park, guided by the fabulous wildlife biologist Sharon Dorsey! Our HUB had a ton of fun using the SEEK app to identify plants and native species, contributing to important research nationwide. Huge thanks to our HUB lead Samantha Miller and our community for showing up! Looking for more opportunities to connect with our DC community? We will be hosting a screening of the documentary “To the End” happening THIS Sunday, June 16th at 6:30pm EST at Patagonia Old Town in Alexandria, VA. We’d love to have you there! #washingtondc #environmentaljustice #Blackgirlenvironmentalist

As we kick off the College Mentorship program this month, we also want to share more about the amazing mentors that make this program possible! We’re so excited to work with Jasmine Walker and Natalie Mebane 👩🏿🌾👩🏾🔬👩🏾💼 We are partnering these seasoned climate professionals with early career Black girls and gender expansive folks who are excited to advance their work in the field. 📚💼

Join Maura the BGE Philly Hub Lead for an evening of family fun at the Discovery Center! Arrive at 5pm for a bird survey around the expansive reservoir, guided by Audubon Mid-Atlantic Senior Coordinator Bria Wimberly! Stay for a 6pm screening of The Big Year, a 2011 classic birding comedy. ALL AGES WELCOME, no background knowledge needed, binoculars are available. Register here: t.ly/VS9P1

✨Get in your career 💼 ✨ Are you looking for a job, internship, or fellowship in the environmental field? BGE is here to help. This week we are showcasing positions from the Bullard Center for Environmental and Climate Justice Nathan Cummings Foundation Midwest Environmental Justice Network The Nature Conservancy Americares ✨ Like, share, comment, and let us know what else you’d like to see from this series! And let us know if you get a job from our board - we love hearing your stories Let’s get the 💼 You can find the application links for these jobs on our LinkedIn. Employers: Interested in having a listing featured in our career bag series? Email us at [email protected]!

Team Black Girl Environmentalist… in style✨ Last week, our Executive Director Wawa Gatheru & Fellowship Manager Kwolanne Felix joined the Coach Foundation for Dream Day in New York City! Last fall, Black Girl Environmentalist was announced as the first ever Catalyst Fund grantee of Coachtopia ✨ As a recipient, Wawa and Kwolanne were invited to speak on the Dream Day stage to share about the entrepreneurship journey, youth-led advocacy, and our Hazel M. Johnson Fellowship. It was wonderful to connect with our fellow grantees, Earth Guardians and Maya who are both leading incredible initiatives! We are so excited for our Hazel M. Johnson Fellow Emma Abercrombie Peters to begin her summer internship with the wonderful team at @coachtopia ⭐️

We are so excited to finally announce that Black Girl Environmentalist has been selected as a Spring 2024 grantee partner of The Hive Fund for Climate and Gender Justice! The Hive Fund for Climate and Gender Justice was launched in 2019 to support groups led by Black, Brown, Indigenous, Asian American, and Pacific Islander women and other frontline leaders in the US South that are playing impactful roles but have historically lacked access to funding. As a new grantee, this funding will be used to support our general capacity and upcoming BIPOC Climate Creator program. Like the Hive Fund, Black Girl Environmentalist believes that we must rapidly transition to cleaner, renewable energy in ways that equitably redistribute leadership, ownership, and benefits to disinvested communities in the US South and beyond. Stay tuned for more updates regarding our future programming! We have a lot coming up! https://lnkd.in/eW7UqC6x #HiveFund #BlackGirlEnvironmentalist #EnvironmentalJustice

✨Get in your career 💼 ✨ Are you looking for a job, internship, or fellowship in the environmental field? BGE is here to help. This week we are showcasing positions from the World Resources Institute New City Parks Climate Action Campaign DC Women's Environment & Development Organization Waverley Street Foundation and Climate Imperative Foundation Like, share, comment, and let us know what else you’d like to see from this series! And let us know if you get a job from our board - we love hearing your stories Let’s get the 💼 You can find the application links for these jobs on our LinkedIn. Employers: Interested in having a listing featured in our career bag series? Email us at [email protected]!

This June BGE is teaming up with Patagonia and the ‘To The End’ documentary team for a film screening event! This film follows the lives of four powerful women on the forefront of environmental justice and the movement for a Green New Deal. Join us for an intimate movie night where you will meet other inspiring Black Girl Environmentalists in the DMV area The event will be hosted on June 16th at 6:30-9 pm. Hosted at the Patagonia in Old Town Alexandria. RSVP here: https://lnkd.in/gmAsEcJm

Join Boston BGE for kayaking on the Charles followed by a picnic dinner on 6/15 at 2:30 pm! 🚣🏾♀️🧺🍎Space is limited, please rsvp here: http://bit.ly/BGEBoston