Jennifer Olachi Uchendu (born 10 August 1992) is a Nigerian climate advocate, sustainability expert, and the creator of SustyVibes, a youth-driven initiative aimed at making sustainability understandable and achievable for Nigerian youth.
[6] Her research into the mental health impacts of climate change has gained her work attention.
[7][8] Within her country there is anxiety about effects like flooding although Uchendu has noted that several local languages lack words to describe climate change.
[9] Her work highlights the importance of climate change and its effects on health,[10] and she one of the small number of African activists who attended COP26 in Scotland in 2021.
[8] Uchendu's The Eco-Anxiety Africa project (TEAP), was founded in 2022 to protect Africans from climate anxiety.