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Eriqah Ré Vincent
EcoWomanist... Event Planner
With over a decade in environmental, climate, and social justice non-profit work, Eriqah R. K. Vincent self identifies as an EcoWomanist, committed to the intersectional fight for climate justice through her spiritual and moral connection to creation, black women, and people of the African Diaspora globally.
She has spent her career following her life's work in environmental justice and racial equity working for various non-profit organizations both big and small and educating herself on how we as a community move toward liberation; ultimately moving towards the collecting liberation of us all.
In all of her career experiences, Eriqah has found some of her most fulfilling moments while coordinating logistics for meaningful causes. In late 2018, she turned her passion into a profession and started Logistics by E.Ré and in 2020 she decided to take the knowledge she has gained on the road as a professional commentator and speaker on environmental and social justice issues.
"The story of the hummingbird is about this huge forest being consumed by a fire. All the animals in the forest come out and they are transfixed as they watch the forest burning and they feel very overwhelmed, very powerless, except this little hummingbird. It says, ‘I’m going to do something about the fire!’ So it flies to the nearest stream and takes a drop of water. It puts it on the fire, and goes up and down, up and down, up and down, as fast as it can.
In the meantime all the other animals, much bigger animals like the elephant with a big trunk that could bring much more water, they are standing there helpless. And they are saying to the hummingbird, ‘What do you think you can do? You are too little. This fire is too big. Your wings are too little and your beak is so small that you can only bring a small drop of water at a time.’
But as they continue to discourage it, it turns to them without wasting any time and it tells them, ‘I am doing the best I can.’
And that to me is what all of us should do. We should always be like a hummingbird. I may be insignificant, but I certainly don’t want to be like the animals watching as the planet goes down the drain. I will be a hummingbird, I will do the best I can."
-Dr. Wangari Maathai, EcoFeminist and founder of The Greenbelt Movement