Amara C. Nwuneli on Problems Worth Solving

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In this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, host Mason Pashia sits down with Amara Nwuneli, the Africa 2025 Earth Prize regional winner, to discuss her inspiring work tackling urban climate challenges in Lagos, Nigeria. Amara shares how her project, The Green Sustainability Hub, integrates sustainable infrastructure into underserved communities by transforming waste into green spaces. From her experiences at COP 30 to her journey of securing grants and mentorship, Amara provides an inspiring look into youth-driven climate solutions, the importance of experiential learning, and the power of starting small to create meaningful change. Tune in to hear how mentorship and real-world projects can empower young leaders to reimagine urban sustainability.

Outline

• (00:00) Criteria for Park Locations
• (09:32) School vs Real-World Learning
• (14:09) Finding the Earth Prize and Mentorship
• (18:32) Marketing and Communications Skills

Criteria for Park Locations

Mason Pashia: You’re listening to the Getting Smart Podcast. I’m Mason Pashia. A few years ago, we had a conversation with Sabrina Zang and Jack Prater, a student-mentor team from Polytechnic High School in California, who were among the finalists for something called the Earth Prize. Before 2025, the Earth Prize had one overall winner, and since then, they’ve decided to open it up to seven winners from different global regions. It’s a really cool program where you get to do real-world projects trying to solve a problem worth solving all around the world. Today, I’m joined by the first-ever regional winner for Africa in 2025.

Amara. Amara is from Lagos, Nigeria, a city of around 17 million people where green spaces cover only 3% of the total land area, which leads to rising urban heat, poor air quality, biodiversity loss, and declining mental and physical well-being. These are all some of the challenges that motivated Amara to try and tackle what’s going on in her hometown.

So we’re going to talk about that today. But first, Amara, welcome to the show. Thank you for being here.

Amara C. Nwuneli: Thank you so much for having me. It’s a pleasure to be here.

Mason Pashia: Yeah, it’s great to hear from you. So earlier we were talking a little bit about COP 30, which is going on right now as we speak. I think you just hopped off of a webinar. But tell me what your role has been in COP this year.

Amara C. Nwuneli: Of course, I’ll be more than happy to. I mean, I’ve been in the climate space now for around five years. My first COP was COP 27, and since then, I’ve been really involved in lots of the negotiation processes beforehand. I’m part of a few delegations like YOUNGO, which is the official youth constituency of the UNFCCC. That is the youth voice for organizations and the different policies that come into play for the conference itself.

And I was also a delegate for the Ashoka Atlanta Fellowship that basically funded us to go there and speak at a few events and bring our causes to the main table. So thankfully, I have been able to get involved in a lot of different ways—online, virtually, and hybrid as well.

Mason Pashia: That’s so cool. So it sounds like this all started for you before the Earth Prize. Like, how did you get involved with this three years ago?

Amara C. Nwuneli: I think genuinely when you grow up in a city that is coastal and especially in a place that has flooding, there’s no way you can’t see climate change. I think most of us know what climate change is but don’t know how to name it. And so it was really something that I grew into. My parents worked in the agriculture industry. I knew that climate change was impacting different people in different ways, and so I started educating myself and then getting involved in the space in general.

Mason Pashia: That’s great. And how have you seen COP change over the last three years? Like, what is the trajectory of change in the global conversation around climate?

Amara C. Nwuneli: Thankfully, it seems to be more positive, at least in the past two years. Before 2025, there was definitely more diversity in the voices being heard. A lot of youth were definitely stepping more into the table, and with social media and the advent of a lot of different storytelling platforms, people are becoming more aware that it is even happening in the first place.

So we’re getting more of those diverse voices in. But sadly, there is also that fatigue in donations in countries. And so while there are more observers coming in, more NGOs, more of the other voices, the government and the more powerful voices are definitely getting less strong, and it’s more like fulfilling a quota that they’re there for.

Mason Pashia: Way to stick with it for the last few years. That’s super exciting. I’m glad you’re being brought to the table. It’s a great voice to have there. So congratulations again on being the regional winner for the Africa 2025 Regional Earth Prize. Tell me a little bit about your project. What did you end up doing?

Amara C. Nwuneli: Of course. So the project is called The Green Sustainability Hub. It was actually one of the only nature-based solutions there and the first one to win. It’s focused on integrating sustainable infrastructure into cities and ensuring that greenery is prioritized.

And so it’s a model that stands for Growth, Recycling, Education, Empowerment, and Nature. It is a bridge between museum-like infrastructure and a playground. Long story short, it is building park materials using waste and bringing that to communities that don’t have green spaces. Through the Earth Prize process, we were able to build our first one, and now we are on our third park in construction.

Mason Pashia: That’s amazing. What’s the criteria for where one of these goes?

Amara C. Nwuneli: Honestly, for our first park, it was really any space anyone would give us.

Mason Pashia: Of course.

Amara C. Nwuneli: Like New York, where land is money, it’s really hard to just find someone who’s willing to give that to you for free. So we were just looking for any space because, like you said in the intro, there’s literally little to no space in general. So anywhere is good. But most recently, we’ve been trying to go to places that even have less infrastructure in general. We built one on an island off the coast of Lagos that really has minimal infrastructure. We partnered with a school and brought this park playground alongside a school to the community.

So it’s the first school on that island, and the third one is in a village—my village, personally—in Anambra State, in Nkwo. And so it’s just bringing it to communities that don’t have that understanding of the importance of sustainability or have a limited understanding. So it can be almost like experiential education in general.

Mason Pashia: That’s so cool. There’s a TV show that was very popular in the States called Parks and Recreation, which is all about city projects. The running joke through the show is, the first episode is about somebody wanting to turn a plot of land into a park, and then like eight seasons later, not much has happened, and finally, they get it. But it is so much work to just develop a park on open land. So, kudos to you for sticking with it. That’s awesome.

Mason Pashia: Yeah. So how—it sounds like the challenge was evident to you. Obviously, you have a little bit more awareness of climate because of your parents and because of where you’re located. But how did you decide that this was the project specifically that you were going to tackle? And how did you go from thinking, “There’s no green spaces; that seems like a really tough hill to climb,” to “I think I actually can do this. I think I can, if given the right set of people or the right situation, make this happen”?

Amara C. Nwuneli: I think, for starters, it was evident, like you said, that it was a need. And I think that need drove me to seek out the people. I personally wanted a place to play. I was 14 or 15, like, “Where am I going to hang out with my friends? Okay, COVID is over now. Can I go outside?” In a sense, there was that lack of being able to have community in the first place and seeing climate change really just driving us inside to an inside that wasn’t safe at all.

And so I think I really started just researching. I’d seen places like, for example, New York’s High Line. They took over a whole train track and turned that into a park. And just those inspirations from things happening, being at places like COP taught me that I can just start from anywhere. And so I just started applying to different small grants, and I was able to get a small grant that helped really enable our proof of concept. And that proof of concept was able to come to the Earth Prize and secure a second amount of funding that powered our second and third parks.

It’s that thing of just having that idea and going to people. It was really a small team for sure. It was me and two of my friends. Then we were able to get someone who is a local artist who works on all these designs. We were able to source different materials together. It was definitely very locally based, but through that, we were able to then create a model that we believe can infiltrate all the cities across Nigeria and West Africa.

Mason Pashia: That’s awesome. So you’re 14 or 15. How do you find out about grant opportunities? That is such a boring question, but also, how did you even know at that age to go looking for a grant?

Amara C. Nwuneli: Okay, so there’s two folds to that. The first one is that my mother actually works in the NGO space. It’s a struggle for real because in NGOs, you barely make any money. But I do know that I would always listen to her calls and see her apply for stuff. And I’m like, “Okay, it’s tasking, but when you get the money and you see the people being impacted, you understand.” And so it was definitely a lot of social understanding of that.

The second fold is Google. I think, in the technology age, you just search “how to get money” because I know I need money to do things now. And so you see all these opportunities. Being younger, there are definitely a lot of awards allocated to the younger generation, especially because they know that it’s harder to go to the bigger grants that require KPIs and need all these track records. So the smaller grant funding is easier to get, in my opinion, when you’re younger. So that was cool as well.

Mason Pashia: That’s really cool. “How to get money” is a great Google search. So I want to talk about the Earth Prize specifically in a second, but last question before we get in there: How different did this project feel from what you were doing in school? How does this experience sit in the world of the school day? Or does it? Is it all separate and feels like a totally different set of skills and muscles?

Amara C. Nwuneli: Definitely. I grew up in Nigeria and the Nigerian education system, and please, the government should notify me, but it’s very theoretical. It’s very “answer this question” straightforward, and it requires no creativity. Very, I would say, factory-worker style of learning. And so this was actually something that I would do just to relieve that need to do. I think I’ve always been someone who wanted to innovate and create, and so that boredom in class is what also pushed me outside to do something like this.

It definitely did require another set of muscles, but I think the more that I was able to do that and to go to these conferences and apply for places like the Earth Prize is what really enabled me to get that creativity. So it definitely fit in my school day in the sense of, like, I was bored in class, so I was thinking about doing things like this. But it was definitely a different brain that I was using.

Mason Pashia: Okay, I lied. There’s one more question. Before we go into the other ones, I’ve been recently obsessed with this idea of a student-led education redesign effort because pretty much across the world, students are saying school is boring, school is non-relevant, and I have a lot of time in class where I’m thinking about other things that are more real-world and applicable.

You are someone who clearly sees a problem and says, “I’m going to address this in some way based on this climate solution.” But I’m curious—I keep seeing youth gravitate toward climate, but I really haven’t seen youth tackle the education problem at all. So I’m curious, if you had—it’s an impossible question in some ways because I’m asking you to speak for the youth, which just isn’t fair—but for you personally, is that problem just not as interesting? Does it feel additionally insurmountable? What makes you not tackle that one, which is also evident and right in front of you?

School vs Real-World Learning

Amara C. Nwuneli: I would say there are three reasons, and I’m going to give a really quick example. I remember I moved into this new school two years ago. I changed schools quite a bit during high school. I was coming from a more liberal education system to a very rigid Nigerian education system. I was speaking to my English teacher, saying, “Oh, we should just go outside and write and let the things we see around us speak to us.” And he got so upset.

I think it’s that thing of: there is a disconnect sometimes between the teacher and the student. You come into class, and there is that lack of relationship. At least in the societies I grew up in, there is a strong emphasis on respect. We are taught to be respectful, and trying to advise or suggest something can be seen as disrespectful.

The second thing I would say is that it seems less rewarding. The energy you can put into changing an education system could be used to improve yourself and do everything outside of school. You see people applying to university beforehand, doing competitions, programs, and fellowships where they get that student-led experience.

The third thing is honestly just lack of priority. People are either very competitive or very focused on other things like sports and classes. With the 24-hour day, students who don’t even want to achieve all of that are just ready to settle in. It’s comforting. The education system we have is easy to understand, and once you’ve hacked that system, you’re fine just not being challenged in any way. So it’s only the 1% that might want to challenge it, but that 1% end up doing other things like climate advocacy or sports.

Mason Pashia: Way to take a surprise question and immediately structure it into three parts and have them all make sense. That’s hard to do. Impressive. I usually say four things and then end up with seven. So, that’s great. Thank you for sharing on that.

Okay, I want to get into the Earth Prize portion now. You’ve got this grant for proof of concept, and now you’re kind of looking for other ways to continue this project. Maybe you come across the Earth Prize. How did you find out about the Earth Prize? And then I know mentorship is a really big part of the Earth Prize, so how did you get paired with a mentor? Who were they, and what role did they play in your journey?

Amara C. Nwuneli: Yes. Great questions. I think the first thing is that with the Earth Prize, it definitely was part of that Google search. Their communication team is really strong.

Mason Pashia: The Earth Prize?

Amara C. Nwuneli: Yes. “How to get money.” The Earth Prize. Instagram, LinkedIn, all of that. It was something that I didn’t really think too much about because you end up applying for a lot of things once you start applying for stuff. But then I was able—they had a really interactive process, webinars, and a Discord channel that people were active on, asking questions.

Aside from a mentor, which you chose personally—mine was my history teacher—you were also able to ask people who were either alumni or trainers. They had some trainers based in Nigeria because there was that struggle of finding land and a lot of political things that come with that. I had to actually go to local government agencies. There’s a lot of control of land that is very bureaucratic and corrupt.

Having someone who understood that was very helpful from my teacher and mentor’s standpoint, but also from people who were connected to the Earth Prize in a more professional sense. It was really helpful just to have someone who taught me about how Lagos as a city used to look 30 years ago and how things used to be. He would just tell me stories about things he used to do and how to connect with the local community in the essence of making sure the park was safe. You don’t want to create a space where children are then liable to danger, leading to more negative outcomes from a positive solution.

It was really helpful to have the Earth Prize structure of the Discord channel and all of that, but also the mentor.

Mason Pashia: That’s really cool. A couple of questions about mentors. We keep hearing about them being critical, especially for young people as they’re trying to achieve their dreams. I guess, for you, what are the qualities of a good mentor? Is it someone who is keeping you excited and focused on a thing? Is it someone who is actually helping you take excitement and then channel it into something in the real world? Is it something completely different? How do you think about a good mentor?

Amara C. Nwuneli: It’s so interesting because I think my mentor really did the opposite. Instead of helping me, because I was already excited and I really wanted to channel it somewhere, it was more about perspective. I feel like a mentor doesn’t really have to be about age sometimes, but more about experience and perspective.

You might want to do this grant. I’m telling you, I wanted to create the next New York Central Park. It’s going to come. Or the next Yellowstone Park in Lagos that was going to help with tourism. The government would give us all this money so we could do PPP. I had this big idea for my first one, and it’s all about starting small.

Young people bring a lot of energy, a lot of excitement, and that creativity, especially when it’s not been broken by the school system. Mentors help with guidance and practical next steps because they’ve gone through those things where they had big ideas and had to scale them down. I’ve found mentors and peers who have mentored me, whether in my faith, in sports, or as teachers. Mentors can be found in a lot of different areas for a lot of different things.

Mason Pashia: Well, and I think mentors, if you ask them kind of the same question, they often say that they’re learning from their mentees the whole time. So I’m sure that you, through this process, have also become a mentor to some people along the way. It’s kind of a bi-directional exchange.

Something else I love about the Earth Prize is they put a lot of energy into communications and PR training for their participants. In the United States, we have this framework called the Advanced CTE Career Clusters Wheel—super catchy, I know. You’re going to be going around telling everyone about that, I’m sure. But they have this thing that basically has all of the different sectors of focus. Maybe you have energy as one of them. Then you’ll have these cross-cutting careers, which are basically entrepreneurship, marketing, and digital technology. They’re essentially saying that whatever job you get, you need to know how to market, be an entrepreneur, and use digital technology.

I think it’s really cool that the Earth Prize is sort of anticipating this by being like, “Hey, if you’re going to do this thing, we need to give you a little training in PR and communications.” I’m curious if you leveraged those resources, if that felt new to you. You’re obviously a really great communicator and confident, which is a big part of the battle. But I’m curious—were those resources useful to you? How do you think this process has taken an idea that felt very much like, “I’m going to build something,” and turned it into more of an actual business idea with many more facets?

Amara C. Nwuneli: Yeah, I mean, it’s great that, like you said, this framework is becoming more popular because it is really important. I think, in general, it was an idea that I thought people would catch on to easily. Like, “What? It’s helping everyone. There are so many benefits—positive externalities, everything. Everyone is happy.” But I feel like it’s definitely about how you market it, and that is something I took advantage of. It’s about who you’re telling the story to and what things you need to convince them about—how they win in the process as well.

Those conversations, one-on-one, and the resources provided by the Earth Prize were really helpful for sure. They had a lot of previous winner stories, and those winners gave advice. That really helped a lot with how I told my story because there was that video element, especially when we got to the last rounds of the competition. I remember I sent my first video, and they were like, “You could work on it a little bit,” because I had music in the background. I really love film, sorry. I was trying to make it more like a film, and they were like, “Okay, but tell us more about the project.” I was like, “I got you.” And so that helped. And here I am, I guess.

Mason Pashia: That is incredible. Yeah, you’ve got to have those people to give you feedback. I think that’s something that is so critical—how do you, as a young person but also as an adult, anticipate your audience and then deliver the message that they need to hear with whatever it is? Because that’s kind of what we’re doing all the time. Even if you’re posting on social media to your friends, that is an audience, and you know how to communicate with them. So that’s a really useful skill.

Beyond PR and communications, what skills do you feel like you developed in this process? You can take this all the way back to when you started—it doesn’t have to be just within the window of the Earth Prize.

Amara C. Nwuneli: You have to definitely wear a financial lens, for sure. I think with projects that are more NGO-like or for public service, it doesn’t seem like you need to focus on that sustainability lens of how you would finance yourself. But I think that’s what distinguishes a lot of people now. Everyone has a great idea, and everyone wants money to fulfill that so they can have that great idea seen on paper. But it’s about how you can ensure that you can function without just increasing the amount of money. Figuring out other ways to raise money, whether that be through in-kind donations—we give plastic bottles that we collect in our park, and that helps finance the park’s maintenance.

That’s something I didn’t really think about at the start. Okay, so we create this park, and then in two years, is it still going to be fully functioning? How are we going to make sure it doesn’t degrade and become an eyesore? Those are things I had to learn over time.

The second thing is understanding the different party interests. Aside from just marketing, it’s also about understanding how to compromise. For example, if someone wants to give you their land but they want to put their brand name on it, or the Lagos State government wants to put their name on it, you have to be able to say, “Okay, as long as the end goal is achieved.” That type of negotiation is important.

Mason Pashia: Yeah, that’s super important. The other question I have for you is, we’ve been working on this framework for a little while at Getting Smart, which is really about how to measure the value of an experience. If you take an internship experience, for example, where a student has an internship in high school and does about 60 hours of work with an employer, how do you measure if it was an okay internship, a good internship, or a great internship? Right now, it’s kind of a box to check—it’s not something that’s very dynamic.

We’re trying to come up with some of the factors that go into making an experience more or less valuable. We’re kind of settling on this idea that the complexity of the experience—how novel it is, how much ambiguity you’re holding as the person going through the experience—the autonomy of the experience, and your influence or contribution are key. Influence or contribution is really about how much you actually bring into the experience. Those are kind of the criteria we’ve landed on. In your experience with this project or business, do those feel true to you? Is there anything you would add to that that feels like, “This is a really useful way to measure how valuable this has been to me”?

In your experience with this project or business, do those feel true to you? Is there anything that you would add to that that feels like, “This is a really useful way to measure how valuable this has been to me”?

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Finding the Earth Prize and Mentorship

Amara C. Nwuneli: Yeah, that’s a great question, honestly. I think there is that sense—especially focusing first on the Earth Prize and then in general—that people can come into this program and not really take as much advantage of the resources available and still win. It depends on what you’re bringing to the table and what you already have. For them, though, it might not be that rewarding in terms of full skill-building.

I think that’s the thing about short-term versus long-term goals. Are you here just for the money, just for the prize, or are you here to learn and gain through the experience of building your own solution? That’s something I have personally struggled with sometimes, whether it’s writing competitions or these types of programs. You can do it in one go, or you can go through the webinars and learn from them.

With the Earth Prize, I personally saw the benefit of having those interactions, completing the little tasks week by week, and participating in the calls. But I think in a general sense, with the different internships I’ve seen, internships nowadays are becoming very watered down. There’s a lot of repetition, and there’s no novelty. You can see these things online where people already inherently know what to expect.

It’s like storytelling—you need to talk about yourself, that type of thing. But in a sense, there’s also a lot of busy work. People are just trying to do it for their resume, even for the Earth Prize. People are just trying to do it for their resume, for getting into university, and it just seems like people are trying to keep themselves busy or make money. That’s what goes into people having jobs nowadays—it’s the same thing.

To measure a good internship, you need to understand, like you said, agency and autonomy, but also that sense of hands-on learning. I really value experiential education. I know there’s a lot of online learning happening, but that physical sense of going out into the field, doing certain things, and speaking to people is so important. Being challenged is really important because it’s not in a class setting, so you don’t have to worry about a grade. You can try, fail, and ask questions. But if you already know everything and you’re just doing it on your own, then there’s that sense of—you’re not really learning anything. You’re just repeating what you know and executing.

Mason Pashia: You’ve mentioned this in passing a few times, but I just want you to expound upon it for a second—this idea of communal learning. With the Earth Prize, you have this Discord channel. But what does it look like now?

You’re kind of an alum of the Earth Prize. You’re in a group of probably pretty high-impact youth who are thinking about how to make the world a better place. Are these people that you’ve made friends with through this process? Do you feel like you have this global community of changemakers now through either this or Ashoka or these other things that you’re a part of? What does that look like, and how do you live into that?

Amara C. Nwuneli: Shout out to the Earth Prize because they have still tried to connect the alumni, especially those who were more active. They created a different Discord for the alumni specifically. People reach out and say, “Oh, I’m trying to apply for this. Do you have any advice?” But also, different alumni still check in with each other.

I’m also very grateful to be part of amazing networks like Ashoka, Young Global Changemakers, and the We Are Family Foundation. Those physical meetups have been very helpful because I feel like you are finding that like-minded community of people who are doing the same thing and have similar experiences. You think you’re doing a lot in your community, and you don’t have people who are like you, so you feel like you’re on your own. Then you see this massive group of people who are doing the same thing, and it inspires you to keep going. I’ve met incredible people from India, Slovakia, South Africa—even Antarctica. It’s wonderful.

Mason Pashia: That’s amazing. So cool. Okay, well, I think I’m going to start to bring us to a close a little bit here. Applications for the Earth Prize technically wrap up in early January, but you should apply before Christmas to be sure to get paired with a mentor. So any educators, parents, or ed leaders listening, make sure you go to theearthprize.org. Help get your students or kids excited about what’s possible.

There’s a new chatbot on the site that can help take them from zero to getting started on this. So definitely check that out. A few things that I have heard today—I just want to recap some of the stuff that I think our ed leader audience will want to take away from this.

One is the importance of experiential learning. Time and time again, that’s kind of where this conversation fell back to, which is that it’s just so important to give young people meaningful, real-world experiences. Two, the importance of mentorship. Mentorship can come from anywhere. It’s not always a formal pairing, even though that can be really great. It’s a relationship between two people. It’s about focusing an idea, focusing excitement, and being there to collaborate together.

And then I think maybe the thing that you have demonstrated the best through all of this is: just start. If you see a problem worth solving, find people, make the problem something that you can put your arms around, and get started. There’s a great quote—I don’t remember who said it—but it’s, “A building isn’t finished; it’s started.” I think that’s very true of this work and of the parks that you’re building. You’re not sure where they’re going to be in two years, but you have to start building them anyway. Anything you would add to that list that I didn’t say there?

Anything you would add to that list that I didn’t say there?

Marketing and Communications Skills

Amara C. Nwuneli: Yeah, I would just tell everyone listening that you should really pour into young people. Whether you’re an adult, a mentor, a teacher, or even just someone who has a child looking up to you, pour into their independence, creativity, and give them challenges. Allow them to learn and really see who they are outside of just the structures that society has placed on them. Give them those chances to try, to fail, and to look out into the world beyond the confines of their home or their safe zone. See how they can use the blessings they have—their talents, skills, and experiences—to bless other people. Not just for internships or resumes, but for genuinely learning and doing impactful work.

And if you’re young and you’re listening to this—kudos to you because you’re podcasting, you’re getting knowledge into your brain. Just keep on doing, keep on striving.

Mason Pashia: I love that. And I think it’s important to build on what you just said—creativity and that excitement are not in opposition to respect. Like with what you were saying in the classroom, just because you have a way of doing this that’s different and lights your fire doesn’t necessarily mean that you are trying to disrespect or undermine the person who has it going a certain way. So, I think that’s super important.

Okay, last question for you, Amara. Who is your favorite filmmaker from Lagos and/or Nigeria? Who should I check out?

Amara C. Nwuneli: Ooh, I love that you said film because I love film so much. Okay, Nigerian filmmakers. Because I did grow up in the film industry, I do know a lot of people, but I’m going to shout out one of my mentors who is amazing—EbonyLife Studios. The head of EbonyLife is Mo Abudu. She’s taken over Nollywood. Go check her out. She made The Wedding Party and a lot of other things. If you want to learn about Nigeria, check out Mo Abudu’s work.

Mason Pashia: Amazing. Okay, we’ll put a link to that in the show notes. Thanks for helping our audience see movies from other places and films from other perspectives. That’s super important.

Okay, well, Amara, this has been awesome. Thank you so much, and I hope you have a great rest of your evening. I think everyone listening should go apply for the Earth Prize. Keep up the great work, Amara.

Amara C. Nwuneli: Thank you.

Guest Bio

Amara C. Nwuneli

Amara Nwuneli is a passionate and creative young Nigerian-American changemaker, dedicated to empowering young people and partnering with various organizations and individuals to help create awareness about climate change and getting all relevant stakeholders involved in finding lasting solutions to climate change.  

Amara is championing youth-led changemaker, supporting and mobilizing innovation and change through climate education courses and bootcamps, educational hubs, informational videos, social media presence and local projects, towards ensuring the varying impacts of climate change are reduced. Along with other partners, she is providing relief assistance to the victims of flooding and other climate issues in underserved communities. 

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• Watch the full video here
• LinkedIn
• Preserve Our Roots
• The Earth Prize
• Mo Abudu