PERSON: Jerome Foster II

WaicUp

Co‑Executive Director & Environmental Justice Activist

Jerome Foster II (born May 9, 2002) is an American environmental activist. He is the youngest-ever White House advisor in United States history, as a member of the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council within the Biden Administration. Foster advocates for social, economic and environmental justice. Foster was an organizer Fridays for Future in the United States; holding weekly climate strikes at the front gates of the White House for over 57 weeks. He has previously served as a congressional intern for U.S. Representative John Lewis at the age of 16 and served on the Washington D.C. State Board of Education’s Advisory Council at the age of 14.

Foster has helped organize some of the largest climate marches in Washington, D.C., and has spoken at the United Nations High Commission on Human Rights in April 2019 and the United Nations Youth Climate Summit in September 2019.

>> Wikipedia