​When We Are Bold

Alexandra Fuller is the award-winning author of five works of nonfiction, including Leaving Before the Rain Comes and Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, a memoir about her childhood in Rhodesia during conflict (the country gained its independence and was later named Zimbabwe), Malawi and Zambia. She now lives in the U.S.

Read Wangari Maathai: Show Up, Do Right, Give Thanks 
by Alexandra Fuller in When We Are Bold: Women Who Turn Our Upsidedown World Right 

Wangari Maathai was a Kenyan environmental and political activist. In 1977, she founded the Green Belt Movement, an environmental non-governmental organization dedicated to the planting of trees, environmental conservation and women’s rights. In 2004, she became the first African woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her contributions to sustainable development, democracy and peace. In 2006, she helped to co-found the Nobel Women’s Initiative. Wangari died in 2011.