Co-Founder of the U.S. Youth Climate Strike and Founder of Earth Uprising International
Alexandria Villaseñor: Biography at a Glance
- Alexandria Villaseñor is an internationally recognized environmental activist, public speaker, author.
- At the age of 13, Alexandria co-founded the U.S. Youth Climate Strike movement and founder of several other initiatives, including the climate education-focused non-profit, Earth Uprising International.
- She can be seen as co-host of FINTECH.TV’s show Price of Climate, discussing the next generation of climate leaders with notable activists, policymakers, and entrepreneurs.
- She is also a contributing author to All We Can Save, an anthology of women climate leaders.
- She has addressed the Democratic National Convention, the United Nations, and the World Economic Forum.
- For her work, Alexandria has received the Earth Day Network Youth Leadership Award, The Rachel Carson Environmental Justice Award, the Common Good American Spirit Changemaker award and was included on Politico’s top 100 people influential in climate change policy list.
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Show: "Price of Climate with Ibrahim AlHusseini & Alexandria Villasenor"New Yorker: "New York’s Original Teen-Age Climate Striker Welcomes a Global Move...Seventeen: "Alexandria Villaseñor Is Mobilizing Young People to Fight For Climat...Washington Post: "How a 7th-grader’s strike against climate change exploded into...Teen Vogue: "Meet Alexandria Villaseñor, the Teen Activist Who's Spent 12 Friday...PopSugar: "From Weekly Strikes to Virtual Rallies, 15-Year-Old Alexandria Villas...
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Biography
When she was 13, Alexandria experienced the 2018 Camp Fire, one of the deadliest wildfires in California history. Soon after, Alexandria began her environmental activism by staging a lone climate strike in front of the United Nations Headquarters in NYC–a strike that would last nearly two years–while co-founding the U.S. Youth Climate Strike Movement and sparking the Fridays for Future movement in the U.S. Since then, Alexandria has become an international speaker and author featured in the anthology of women climate leaders, All We Can Save. She addressed the Democratic National Convention, the United Nations, NATO and the World Economic Forum. She attended and spoke at the United Nations Conference of Parties in Madrid (COP25), Glasgow (COP26) and Egypt (COP27). She was a child petitioner for the ground-breaking international complaint to the United Nations, Children vs. Climate Crisis and is the youngest Junior Fellow of the World Academy of Arts and Sciences. Alexandria has sat on many Youth Advisory Boards including the U.S.-based environmental policy think tank Evergreen Action, the American Lung Association and IKEA Corporation. Alexandria is also a Global Choices "Arctic Angel" raising awareness about how global heating is affecting our Arctic and its ecosystems.
For her work, Alexandria has been honored by Seventeen Magazine as one of their Young Voices of the Year and by Marie Claire Magazine and as an Environmental Changemaker. She has been featured in The Washington Post, The New York Times and The New Yorker, and has written op-eds that have been published in The Guardian and Teen Vogue.
For her work, Alexandria has been honored to receive the Earth Day Network Youth Leadership Award, the Rachel Carson Environmental Justice Award, and the Common Good American Spirit Changemakers Award. She was included in Politico's top 100 most influential people in climate change policy list and was recently awarded a California State Senate Commendation.
Now a student at Harvard University, Alexandria's focus is on building grassroots intersectional activist networks connecting democracy and environmental justice.
