Wangari Maathai with her Nobel Medal and Diploma at the Nobel Peace Prize Award Ceremony, Oslo City Hall, Norway. The Kenyan ecologist is the first African woman awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Ottoo Brand Artivism-PADER’s Emilia A. Ottoo, Dr. Richard E. Ottoo, and Craig M. Joseph attended a reception for the Wangari Maathai Institute and Green Belt Movement at the home of Annie Auerbach and family in New York (pictures in the GALLERY). Founded by Wangari Maathai of Kenya, the first African woman to receive a Nobel Peace Prize for her work in environmental sustainability and grassroots organizing, this intimate event brought movers and shakers of global efforts for social change to the same place at the same time.

Wangari Mathaai Institute & Green Belt Movement Reception 9.22.13

Ottoo Brand Artivism-PADER looks forward to bringing more youth and people of the diaspora to the work of the Wangari Maathai Institute and Green Belt Movement , while also partnering with the affiliate organizations present that night. Wangari Maathai is also survived by her daughter Wanjira Mathai pictured above, as well as granddaughter Baby Elsa and board chairman Dr. Njeri Gakonyo.