About Us

International Relations and Political Science graduate, recently based in Dublin, Ireland. She has built a professional career in administration and operations support within semi-public, private, and non-profit organisations. Over the years, she has developed a keen interest in social innovation projects, especially those that further concrete and more inclusive actions around sustainable development and climate change. This led her to pursue additional certifications in project management. She is eager to keep supporting initiatives that contribute to a more critical debate around climate change, considering and empowering those less heard.

Ghanaian climate activist and the former Climate Lead at the Office of the UN Secretary General’s Envoy on Youth. He has over 8 years of experience working with young people on Climate Action Disaster Risk, and Resilience Building. He founded Green Africa Youth Organization (GAYO), served as a member of the IRENA Global Council on Enabling Youth Action for SDG 7, and has been an Adaptation Fellow at the Global Center on Adaptation (GCA). In the past two years, Joshua has focused on supporting grassroot youth-led organizations and is continuously engaged in the advocacy to shift climate philanthropy to youth and locally-led organizations.

Ecofeminist climate organiser and multimedia communicator from Bogotá. She comes from an Andean native peasant family from Cómbita, Boyacá and believes that positionality, sharing and profound questioning must be at the core to achieve socio-environmental justice. Laura has organised youth climate projects with Pacto X El Clima, Fridays For Future Bogotá, Unite For Climate Action, FFF MAPA, Mock COP and most recently with the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty. And has supported as well native peasant and agroecology processes. She has an Education, Gender and International Development MA from University College London - Institute Of Education in which she addresses how hegemonic Western education has historically impacted the identity and climate agency of native peasant communities and women from the Cundiboyacense Highlands of Colombia.

23-year-old climate justice & LGBTQI2S+ activist. Nathan was one of seven members of Antonio Guterres’ Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change from 2020-2023. He founded Generation Climate Europe - the largest coalition of youth-led networks on climate and environmental issues at the European level. Nathan was also the co-chair of the youth pre-COP26 and is a former Board member of the European Environmental Bureau and Youth and Environment Europe. He is also a 776 Foundation fellow awardee. In 2020, he was nominated with 5 other young European for the “Young European of the Year 2020” award. He graduated from Sciences Po Grenoble in France and has a MA in environmental policy and regulation at the London School of Economics.

Ayshka Najib (she/her) is a climate justice activist and organizer based in the UAE. Her work focuses on ensuring the leadership and meaningful participation of those at the frontlines of the crisis and this is reflected in her advocacy with Fridays For Future MAPA (Most Affected People and Areas). She is one of the UNICEF Youth Advocates to UAE, supporting the Gulf Area Office with her expertise on climate change.

Passionate advocate for climate justice and social change. Hailing from Samoa with ancestral ties to Tokelau and Tuvalu, Cherelle has always been passionate about uplifting stories from the Pacific. As a Pacific Climate Warrior, Cherelle acknowledges the importance of amplifying the voices of youth and marginalized communities, weaving indigenous, racial, and gender justice into the climate narrative. As an Asia Pacific advisory board member for FRIDA, she showcases her dedication to financing diverse youth-led initiatives that drive social change. With an education background in commerce and development studies and work experience within the UN, mental health, and education; Cherelle brings a unique perspective to her activism.

Joice Mendez is a migrant and social entrepreneur working on transboundary cooperation in the water-energy-food nexus with an emphasis on energy justice. Joice is a major voice of Latin America within leading youth and climate mechanisms, including the United Nations Secretary General’s Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change, the UNMGCY’s SDG7 Youth Constituency, the IRENA's Director- General's Global Council on Enabling Youth Action for SDG7 and the initiative Youth4Climate.

Joice co-founded several local and regional youth organizations, including the Moema Viezzer Environmental Education Observatory, the Latin American Observatory of Geopolitics of Energy, and the binational Youth Collective of the Parana Basin 3 from the Cultivating Good Water Initiative– a recipient of the UN-Water Best Practice Award in 2015. Joice has also supported Paraguay's National Conference of Youth since 2016 and the National Forum of Water and Youth, and continues to be active in YOUNGO, the Climate Reality Project América Latina, SDG7 Youth Constituency, and the Youth Adaptation Network of the Global Center on Adaptation.

Environmental sustainability advocate with exceptional leadership and professional skills having served as a programme manager, youth climate and sustainable energy champion, network weaver, researcher, facilitator and policy entrepreneur over the past 8 years. She has a proven career history in international development, futures thinking, and strategic foresight work. Passy is adept in conceptualising and effectively implementing projects, mobilising support for increased sustainable practices across sectors, creating connections, weaving collaborations across multiple stakeholders, and catalysing collective intelligence and actions to secure sustainable futures for current and future generations. She is currently the Vice-Chair of IRENA's Global Council on SDG7 and the Regional Focal Point for East and Southern Africa at the SDG7 Youth Constituency.

Social impact leader focused on providing youth engagement in energy and the climate sector. Besides, he is also a youth researcher working independently on research about technology, innovation, utilization, resource assessment, and education in renewable energy within 6 publications in total. Regarding his concern in education, he cares to help students to understand and do more in renewable energy through the society of renewable energy and him as a founder. Currently, the field of research that he works in are geothermal, solar PV, solar thermal, energy storage, innovations, and solutions. His organization, the Society of Renewable Energy (SRE), aims to accelerate Indonesia's energy transition through youth empowerment and multi-organizational collaboration.

Archana belongs to Khadia Tribe from India. She is a Climate Justice Advocate. She was the Youth Advisor to United Nations Secretary General. She was part of the First Cohort of United Nations Secretary General’s Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change, she was the only one from Asia and Indigenous among the seven members.

She holds a Masters Degree in Regulatory Governance from Tata Institute of Social Sciences Mumbai. She holds experience in research and advocacy on the rights of indigenous and local communities and Climate Action. She has been working to document, preserve and promote traditional knowledge and cultural practices of indigenous communities.

She is a member of YOUNGO, official children and youth constituency of UNFCCC . She is also a member of GYBN Global Youth Biodiversity Network , Youth Constituency of United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity.

She has been reclaiming spaces for Indigenous Peoples and local communities in the climate and biodiversity spaces, voicing their perspective and advocating for recognition and enforcement of their rights and making them an integral part of the decision making processes

Pakistani human rights, climate defender and poet. She is a co-founder of Polluters Out and the Executive Director of Student Affairs at FFU. On Sept 20th, 2019 she helped mobilize and lead over 300,000 students onto the streets of Manhattan demanding their governments take climate action. Her advocacy focuses on climate justice and racial justice for BIPOC youth. She is one of the current Youth Advisors to the UN Secretary General. In early 2023, she was announced one of the Times Women of the Year 2023.

She is a Climate Justice Activist, Writer and Speaker based in the U.K. She is a coordinator in Climate Live, a youth-led organisation to harness the power of music for the planet, part of the #StopRosebank campaign. She focuses on engaging people, and demanding action from world leaders. She became an environmentalist after discovering how air pollution was impacting her community in London, and impact of rising sea levels in Jamaica. She is committed to intersectional Climate Justice. She was involved in the September 2019 climate strikes which brought 300,000 people on the streets in the U.K. She has spoken on world stages about climate justice and her activism, at events such as COP26, COP27, NY Times Hub hosted by Emma Watson alongside Malala and Greta Thunberg, Forum, at the O2 with Billie Eilish. She was named in Forbes 2020 Top U.K Environmentalists List for her work, and was honoured as a young leader at the Green Carpet Fashion Awards.

Hilda Flavia Nakabuye is a Ugandan climate, gender and environmental rights activist who founded Fridays for Future Uganda - a youth-led and organized global climate strike movement. Every Friday, she works toward building a safer and healthier environment by rallying governments, corporate organizations and communities to take climate action. She has visited schools around the world, mobilizing students to use their voices to make a difference. Flavia Nakabuye is also a public speaker, writer, Future Girl Rising fellow and member of the C40 Global Youth and Mayors Forum. She leads shore cleanup at Lake Victoria, empowering lakeshore communities to learn how to protect lakes and fight against plastic pollution.

Aymara woman from the Plurinational State of Bolivia. She advocates for Indigenous Peoples' rights, particularly for the rights of Indigenous Women and Youth. She has advocated for the indigenous young perspective, as a member of the Red de Jóvenes Indígenas de Latino America y el Caribe (RED-LAC). She is a law student in the Universidad Mayor de San Andres. She has also participated in the 2021 International Summer Program on Indigenous Peoples’ Rights and Policy in Columbia University. She also campaigns for access to health for youth as a member of the Young Group for Health of the Pan American Health Organization. Currently, she is LAC Focal Point of the Global Indigenous Youth Caucus and Co-chair of the ILC youth platform.

Máximo Mazzocco is a climate & ecological advocate and entrepreneur. Declared Pangeist, he is a UNDP Youth Global Ambassador and a Member of Kay Pacha’s Order. In 2014, he founded Eco House Global, an Action for Sustainability non profit organization with more than 40 ongoing programes. Nowadays, he is a member the New Zero World Youth Council. Author of “Apuntes the un ambientalista” (Penguin Random House). He is founder and co-founder of several initiatives, organizations, programs, campaigns and networks. His love for animales led him to followa plant-based diet for more than 10 years.

Mitzi Jonelle Tan is a full-time climate justice activist based in Metro Manila, Philippines. She is the convenor and international spokesperson of Youth Advocates for Climate Action Philippines (YACAP), the Fridays For Future (FFF) of the Philippines. She is also an organizer with FFF International and FFF MAPA (Most Affected Peoples and Areas) making sure that voices from the Global South especially are heard, amplified, and given space. A strong voice on anti-imperialism, anti-colonization, and the intersectionality of the climate crisis, she is committed to changing the system and building a world that prioritizes people and planet, not profit, through collective action. She is also a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative champion.

Socioenvironmental defender and climate artivist from Brazil. Graduated in Law and Social Sciences, she was a Youth Advisor to the UN Secretary-General from 2020 to 2023. She still serves as Advisor in different UN Agencies and other Institutions. For the past 8 years, she acted as legal advisor to the Instituto Socioambiental, in socioenvironmental rights, including climate, indigenous and traditional peoples, being responsible for pushing the youth perspective into the organization. She co-coordinated the Working Group on Climate at the youth-led organization Engajamundo, as well as several Youth Delegations to National and International Climate Conferences. In recent years, she has focused on supporting grassroots organizations to broaden the reach of their initiatives and is continually engaged in socioenvironmental advocacy, implementing #ClimateAction and democratize more finance for on ground organizations.