29 min
Building a Black community for green jobseekers Degrees: Real talk about planet-saving careers
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The good news: Climate action offers the biggest job opportunity of our lifetimes. The bad news: The environmental workforce remains overwhelmingly white. But not if Wes Gobar can help it. With Kiera Givens, Miles Braxton, and Sarah Nesbit, Wes co-founded BlackOak Collective, a career network growing green jobs for Black environmentalists. In doing so, he changed people’s lives, including his own. For his mission, Grist named him one of the top 50 people shaping the future of the planet. Yesh talks with him about his journey, about not feeling alone as a Black jobseeker, and about why the planet needs us to diversify the green workforce.
The good news: Climate action offers the biggest job opportunity of our lifetimes. The bad news: The environmental workforce remains overwhelmingly white. But not if Wes Gobar can help it. With Kiera Givens, Miles Braxton, and Sarah Nesbit, Wes co-founded BlackOak Collective, a career network growing green jobs for Black environmentalists. In doing so, he changed people’s lives, including his own. For his mission, Grist named him one of the top 50 people shaping the future of the planet. Yesh talks with him about his journey, about not feeling alone as a Black jobseeker, and about why the planet needs us to diversify the green workforce.
29 min