“I thought about her a lot on the long truck rides from Kenya to South Africa,” says Winnie Asiti, a 25-year-old Kenyan environmental activist, of her mentor, the late Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai. “I thought about my peers teasing me and calling me a treehugger, and how I told them, just wait and […]
Author: Heather Box
Heather Box is a writer, activist and trainer who works in partnership
with change makers around the globe to support their campaigns, grow
their networks and share their stories. Her education in journalism
and social economics laid the groundwork for her work as a writer and
social justice organizer. Over the past ten years she has worked in
the youth movements in the United States, Spain, Sri Lanka, Japan,
Australia, Argentina, Vietnam, South Africa and Uruguay on issues of
civic engagement, climate change, human rights and immigration.
Heather is the founder of the Million Person Project, an international
project about love, globalizing relationships and supporting change
makers. The first phase of this project launched in September 2011.
She is working with climate change activists from Vietnam, South
Africa and Uganda to convene youth workshops, conduct story telling
trainings and write about the central force driving young activists
around the world to act for change.