Alexandria Villaseñor co-founded the U.S. Youth Climate Strike movement at the age of 13. Now she is an internationally recognized environmental activist, public speaker, author, and founder of several more initiatives, including the climate education-focused non-profit, Earth Uprising International. She became Co-Host of FINTECH.TV’s show, Price of Climate, where sits down with notable activists, policymakers, and entrepreneurs to discuss how we can best understand and activate the next generation of climate leaders.

She has addressed the Democratic National Convention, the United Nations, and the World Economic Forum. She is a contributing author to All We Can Save, an anthology of women climate leaders, and a child petitioner for the ground-breaking international complaint to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child, Children vs. Climate Crisis. Alexandria serves on the advisory board for the national climate policy platform Evergreen Action and is a youth spokesperson and advisor for the American Lung Association. She is the youngest Junior Fellow of the World Academy of Arts and Sciences and also a GlobalChoices Arctic Angel, speaking out on the urgency to address the Arctic crisis. 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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