Op-Ed: African Women Across The Diaspora Are The Climate Experts You’ve Been Overlooking

Essence Magazine:

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In a modest kitchen in global climate debate, African women are often cast as victims of displacement or disaster. Rarely are we seen for what we are: scientists, innovators, and strategists. But the work we do —  braiding seeds into our hair before being kidnapped from our homelands, protecting water sources in drought, adapting crops to extreme weather, and feeding communities through crisis

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