Nakate, Vanessa: - Vanessa Nakate is founder of the Rise Up Climate movement and the Vash Green Schools Project, which aims to install solar panels on all of Uganda\'s 24,000 schools.
She lives in Kampala, Uganda..
Nakate and her work have been featured in the New York Times, the Guardian, Yes!, Vox, Vogue, the Huffington Post, the International Women\'s Forum, and the Global Landscapes Forum, and on globalcitizen.org, greenpeace.org, CNN, the BBC, PBS, and United Nations media.
The United Nations named her a Young Leader for the Sustainable Development Goals in 2020, and Time magazine named her to its Time100 Next list in 2021.
She has spearheaded the Save Congo Rainforest campaign.
Nakate, Vanessa: - Vanessa Nakate is founder of the Rise Up Climate movement and the Vash Green Schools Project, which aims to install solar panels on all of Uganda\'s 24,000 schools
