Youth Speak: What Young Climate Justice Leaders Need Now

Alison Stine is a writer. Prior to NPQ, she was a staff writer at Salon where she covered culture. She has been a freelance reporter with The New York Times and a contributing editor at the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. Her awards include a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship and the Studs Terkel Award for Media and Journalism. She holds a PhD in Nonfiction Writing from Ohio University, and is the author of several books of fiction, most recently Road Out of Winter, which won the Philip K. Dick Award, and Trashlands, longlisted for the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, 100 Days in Appalachia, YES! and others.

Senowa Mize-Fox is the Movement Engagement Manager for Climate Justice at National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy.

Yasmina Benslimane is the Founder of Politics4Her.

Gabby Treadwell is a horticulture student at their nearby community college, College of Western Idaho, in the Pacific Northwest. They work for Black Liberation Collective, a nonprofit that focuses on serving the Black queer and trans community in their area. This includes mutual aid programs, facilitating access to gender-affirming care, and creating outdoor access to environmental spaces that historically have been kept from the Black diaspora. In the future, Treadwell hopes to venture out and start their own urban farm that is stewarded and cared for by folks of color. Treadwell has a deep passion for amplifying Black voices and their contributions to the climate justice movement.