Youth Activist

Across Canada, millions of people don’t think twice when turning on the tap. But Indigenous activist Tia Kennedy never takes a glass of water for granted.

Climate activist Hilda Flavia Nakabuye first experienced the impacts of climate change before she even knew what the term meant.

Selina Leem is a climate warrior and a poet from the large ocean nation of Aelōn̄ Kein Ad, the Marshall Islands.

Julieta Martinez is a climate justice and gender equity youth activist. Her work focuses on girls’ education as a climate solution, since the climate crisis is not gender neutral.

Tia Kennedy is an Indigenous rights activist and youth leader in her community.

Stephanie Lamma Ewi obtained a master’s degree in natural resource and environmental management from the University of Buea, spearheading research and development for 9 years as an environmental and climate justice advocate in rural communities of Cameroon.

Gitanjali Rao was recognized as the United State's Top Young Scientist and received an EPA Presidential award for inventing her device Tethys, an early lead detection tool.

Nakabuye Hilda Flavia is a Ugandan climate, gender and environmental rights activist who founded Fridays for Future Uganda—a youth-led and -organized global climate strike movement.