Media and Spokespeople
Youth voices matter now more than ever. We have many youth spokespeople who are experts on climate justice, loss and damage, agriculture, energy, finance, gender equality, and much more besides. If you would like to interview or meet any of our spokespeople, please write to us at childrenandyouthpavilion@greenhouse.agency - or visit us at the Children and Youth Pavilion in the Blue Zone.
You can find our spokespeople profiles below:
ACE
Hailey Campbell (She / Her)
Co-Executive Director, Care About Climate
Nationality: Hawaii
Languages Spoken: English
Hailey Campbell is a Climate Resilience specialist, Action for Climate Empowerment Advocate, and the Co-Executive director of Care about Climate. Hailey has also been working with YOUNGO for two years, in which time she has been instrumental in Uplifting the perspectives, experiences, and voices of youth on the frontlines of climate change, organizing and participating in bilateral discussions with high-level UN officials and policy-makers regarding youth perspectives on the Paris Agreement.
Adaptation
Joyce Mendez (She / Her)
Nationality: Columbia and Paraguay
Languages Spoken: Spanish, Portuguese, English and learning ArabicJoyce Mendez is a Technoxamanist, TEDx lecturer, and social entrepreneur working on transboundary cooperation in the water-energy-food nexus with an emphasis on energy justice and adaptation. Currently, she is the Latin American and Caribbean Regional Focal Point of the SDG7 Youth Constituency and member of the IRENA's Director- General's Global Council on Enabling Youth Action for SDG7, she’s a member of the Youth Advisory Council of the Global Center on Adaptation. Joyce works continuously with several organizations she has co-founded including the Latin American Observatory of Geopolitics of Energy, the Moema Viezzer Environmental Observatory, and Paraguayan Youth for Water and Climate Network. Currently she works as a climate change consultant in UNICEF-Paraguay.
Biodiversity
Nadino Calapucha (He / Him)
Technical coordinator, Indigenous Defender Program
Nationality: Ecuador
Languages Spoken: SpanishNadino is a young leader of the Amazonian Kichwa Nationality, from the Arajuno Canton-Ecuadorian Amazon. Activism has been a part of Nadino’s life since he was a child. He is currently the Technical Coordinator of the Indigenous Defence Program, and has previously a member of the Youth Youth Council of the Indigenous Movement, as well as the Plurinational Representative of Indigenous Children and Adolescents of Ecuador.
Archana Soreng (She / Her)
Nationality: India
Languages Spoken: English, HindiCivil Society
Boitumelo Molete (She / Her)
Nationality: South Africa
Languages Spoken: EnglishSustainable Cities
Saher Rashid Baig (She / Her)
Nationality: Pakistan
Languages Spoken: EnglishEnergy
Eduarda Zoghbi (She / Her)
Nationality: Brazil
Languages Spoken: Portuguese, Spanish, EnglishFinance
Karishma Ansaram (She / Her)
Nationality: Mauritius
Languages Spoken: English, FrenchVladislav Kaim (He / Him)
Nationality: Moldova
Languages Spoken: Romanian, Russian, English, Swedish, and ItalianGender
Mana Omar (She / Her)
Nationality: Kenya
Languages Spoken: Swahili, EnglishMana is the CEO and Founder of Spring of the arid and semi-arid lands (SASAL). She is also a climate scientist and justice/gender advocate for the indigenous pastoralist communities of Kenya. Mana is a youth leader with the UN Women Feminist Action for Climate Justice Action Coalition, lead of Fridays For Future Kajiado and Refugees for Future Kenya. She is a member of Fridays For Future MAPA (Most Affected Peoples and Areas).
Science and Technology
Nisreen Elsaim (She / Her)
Nationality: Sudan
Languages Spoken: Arabic, EnglishYouth and Future Generations
Ayisha Siddiqa (She / Her)
Nationality: Pakistan, USA
Languages Spoken: English, UrduMohab Sherif (He / Him)
Nationality: Egypt
Languages Spoken: English, Arabic