Serena Mendizabal, a Wolf Clan member of the Cayuga Nation in Six Nations, is ensuring any development on the area known as the Haldimand Tract, comprising six miles on each side of the Grand River, occurs only with the consent of chiefs and clan mothers.
In 2022, 22-year-old Ashoke Mohanraj was named one of Starfish Canada’s Top 25 Environmentalists Under 25 after writing a best-selling children’s book, Pollinator Man, aimed at helping children become more engaged with their role in defending our planet.
Abul Bashar Rahman, a 21-year-old economics student at the University of British Columbia, is spending his summer cycling across his home country of Bangladesh raising awareness of his people’s remarkable ability to remain resilient in the face of climate catastrophes.
As co-founder and COO of Circulr, this 24-year-old Kitchener resident works with grocery store brands in the Toronto and Waterloo-Wellington regions to create a reuse platform to reduce a communities’ collective environmental impact.