Black Excellence: Cameron Oglesby
https://explorers.nationalgeographic.org/directory/cameron-oglesby
Cameron Oglesby (she/her) is an environmental justice advocate, oral historian, and award-winning journalist who is dedicated to re-centering the voices, narratives, and knowledge of historically disinvested communities. She was named a National Geographic Young Explorer in 2024. Oglesby has spent the last seven years in North Carolina working with university and community leaders to establish climate education initiatives, leverage institutional power to foster community partnerships, and report on the intersection of environmental racism, infrastructure and policy, and land and agriculture. Her reporting has appeared in The Nation, Grist, Atmos Magazine, Southerly, Yale Climate Connections, and more, and her organizing and storytelling work has been featured by the Southern Environmental Law Center’s Broken Ground podcast and NC WUNC’s The Broadside podcast.