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Climate Action Advocacy

With City Hub Initiative, is a Co-Founder and member of the Board of Directors from January 2015 until now, started a non-profit co-working space for young change-makers to aid them in their success of projects focusing on social justice or environmental sustainability, in partnership with the Dutch Urban Design Centre Vancouver. The City Hub Initiative aims to connect young change-makers in a collaborative environment to develop innovative projects, foster creativity, and provide engaging learning opportunities.

With Kids for Climate Action as co-directorand mentor from September 2011 until January 2016, organized street canvassing events for a youth-powered petition against the Enbridge Pipeline that rendered over 2000 face-to-face signatures, arranged for 150 people to ride from Vancouver to Victoria on a bike to protest the Enbridge Pipeline (Ride For Our Future), worked with Port Metro Vancouver and other industry representatives to discuss climate change and the Fraser Surrey Docks coal expansion project, spoke at the Metro Vancouver board of directors in opposition of this expansion, and got a motion passed in support of our opposition.

Public Speaking and Youth Engagement

With the British Columbia Council for International Cooperation, as a speaker in 2017, gave a short talk about finding hope and love in the work that we do as intersectional climate activists.Public Speaking and Youth Engagement

Event Planning and Execution

With the Vancouver School Board (VSB) as an organizing team member from June 2012 until January 2013, planned a conference focused on promoting sustainability within the VSB, collaborated with other high school students, university students, teachers, and trustees, acted as master of ceremonies during the event, and achieved original goals of the ASPEN agreement to provide VSB schools with a 1-for-1 Elkay water bottle dispenser to eliminate plastic water bottles from being sold.

With the Canadian Asthma, Allergy, and Immunology Foundation as an event planner from June 2015 until October 2015, organized a professionally timed 4 kilometre race in partnership with the Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology Conference 2015. This included dealing with the pre-event and post-event logistics, budget, and advertisement of the race.

With the Pacific Sprit Park Society as a Trail Troupers Coordinator and also as a Camosun Bog Crazy Bogger from September 2011 until July 2014, taught youth about indigenous and invasive species in Pacific Spirit Park on themed nature walks, gave tours of Camosun Bog on weekends once a month to tourist groups and visiting school field trips, and helped take away invasive species from Camosun Bog once a week.

Queer and Feminist Activism

With Love Intersections as a Main Organizerfrom March 2016 until now, learned how to film, edit, and submit our multi-media projects focusing around the intersectional feminism of social inequality issues to 15+ film festivals around the world (including Amsterdam, Mumbai, Pakistan, Northern BC, Vancouver), presented to secondary school QSAs and Vancouver queer community groups as a queer POC, and maintained a blog focusing on these issues of inclusivity and representation in modern media. Love Intersections is a community of queer and trans people of colour that collectively create a multimedia love note to address often divisive issues through a lens of compassion written by a group of hyper-academic hopeful millennials.

Accolades

• Vision Vancouver Next Young Leaders Fellow 2016-2017
• City of Vancouver Greenest City Leadership Award of Excellence 2016
• UBC Major Entry Scholar 2014
• Vancouver School District Sustainability Award 2013
• Vancouver School District Michael Scultz Performing Arts Award 2013
• Prince of Wales Student Council Character Award 2013
• Prince of Wales Fine Arts Award 2013

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