Lake Turkana

In the arid, steamy Turkana region of northern Kenya, where a desert lake has supported indigenous communities for millenia, it’s Ikal Angelei versus a $60 billion dam that would harm the lake. In what would seem like an extremely unequal war, 31-year-old Angelei is winning battle after battle with help from friends like the American Jewish World Service and the Goldman Environmental Prize, which she received on April 16 on San Francisco.