Across the world, parents, grandparents, and caregivers are taking climate action to protect the kids they love, children everywhere, and our shared home. The Climate Parent Fellowship is a year-long program that supports parent-led, intergenerational, and family-centered climate engagement work.
In January 2025, we welcomed our fourth cohort of Fellows, consisting of 12 organizers from nine countries: Brazil, Canada, India, Mexico, Nigeria, Sweden, Uganda, the USA, and the UK.
Since 2021, we have supported 53 organizers from 25 countries through our Fellowship program. Our Fellows have come from a diversity of backgrounds. We have supported campaigners, grassroots organizers, indigenous leaders, artists, and educators to grow and develop their climate work.
Our Fellows are key organizers in the climate groups they are part of and working on one (or more) of the following:
- Building impactful organizations: Creating strong groups capable of driving change at local, national, or global levels.
- Influencing decision-makers: Leading bold campaigns for clean air, challenging fossil fuel interests, and advocating for a fair transition to renewable energy.
- Driving community engagement: Developing communications and strategies that inspire parents, grandparents, caregivers, and elders to advocate for bold climate solutions.
Our Fellows receive training, mentorship, and a stipend, which aims to make their climate organizing work more sustainable. The Fellowship also acts as a peer-to-peer learning network.
We will open applications for our fifth Fellowship cohort later in 2025 – if you’d like to be alerted when the Fellowship opens, please register here.
Love and care for the next generation can spark incredible change, especially when those doing work receive the right support to help them develop and thrive. This is why we run the Climate Parent Fellowship program!
Meet Our Current Fellows
Our dynamic 2025 Fellowship cohort is made up of 12 organizers from nine countries: Brazil, Canada, India, Mexico, Nigeria, Sweden, Uganda, the USA, and the UK. Find out more about them and their climate work below.
Adenike is an ecofeminist, climate justice leader, and the initiator of the Fridays For Future movement in Nigeria, and leads the pan-African organization “I Lead Climate Action Initiative”. She has participated in multiple COP UN Climate talks as a youth delegate; her first COP was COP25 in Spain in 2019. She became an environmentalist after seeing the impacts of an oil spillage in her community. She is engaging youth and elders in intergenerational dialogues about the need for change and environmental justice in Nigeria’s crude oil-rich Niger Delta region. Over the past two decades, oil exploration in the region has had a devastating impact on communities and the ecosystem.
Catarina Nefertari is a communications specialist and climate justice advocate based in Brazil. She is the Communications and Mobilization Manager for the Amazônia de Pé movement where she leads campaigns to protect the Amazon rainforest and amplify the voices of its communities. With a background in publicity and advertising and an MBA in Strategic Business Management, Catarina has extensive experience in social impact initiatives, having co-founded the NGO Laboratório da Cidade. Passionate about intergenerational mobilization, she strives to create lasting environmental and social change through her work.
Charlotte is a co-director of Parents for Future UK (PFF UK). Her passion and focus is galvanizing parents to support bold change to protect our stable climate. Over the past 4 years, she has helped grow PFF UK into a thriving movement that centers wellbeing, community resilience, connection and collaboration. Charlotte’s work focuses on leading creative climate campaigns, organising and strategic communications to build a truly intergenerational climate movement. She strives to broaden and build the movement by increasing awareness of how we can all play a role, and balancing the urgency with a heavy dose of agency.
Claire is a mother, educator, and environmental advocate born in Alberta, Canada. Motivated by an unwavering commitment to the well-being of people and our planet, she co-founded For Our Kids Alberta, a parent-led group driving climate action in a province where oil and gas are central to the economy and deeply rooted in the psyche of its citizens. With a focus on clean air to support children’s health and learning, Claire brings together parents and caregivers united in the pursuit of a sustainable future. She is building a resilient network advocating for an oil and gas pollution cap, a renewable energy revolution, and meaningful change to protect children, communities, and our Earth.
Clarissa is the leader of the social project Mães pelo Clima and the founder/CEO of Causo, a branding agency focused on conscious brands. Clarrisa’s personal journey into motherhood and the desire to leave a better world for future generations motivated her to create Mães pelo Clima. The project aims to connect mothers who share concerns about the climate crisis and how it affects their children. Through both her social project and her business, she creates ecosystems where sustainability and regeneration thrive, advocating for climate awareness in Brazil, and preparing for COP30 in the country. In 2025, her goal is to expand her impact, growing the community of mothers committed to climate action.
Daniela is a co-founder of Mamas y Papas por el Clima in Mexico, a parent led movement working for a better future for all children. The group acts together to build a stronger parent voice on climate change in Mexico. They organize community events and share knowledge about how to live a more sustainable and healthy family life. Daniela is an industrial engineer and environmentalist, having worked in consulting and finances in the private sector and in her later professional years in NGOS on different projects on climate change and protection of nature.
Hikma is a registered nurse, a parent of two, and an active community member.
Inspired by her children and young people around the world who are engaging with the challenges of our time, she joined the climate activism group, Climate Families NYC, where she is now a core organizer. Hikma is committed to working with diverse families to build people power by connecting with teachers, students, and parent communities. She believes we can make diverse, lasting, and deep connections in our school and child-raising communities to build supportive networks of care and resilience that are a resource for difficult times.
Inspired by her children and young people around the world who are engaging with the challenges of our time, she joined the climate activism group, Climate Families NYC, where she is now a core organizer. Hikma is committed to working with diverse families to build people power by connecting with teachers, students, and parent communities. She believes we can make diverse, lasting, and deep connections in our school and child-raising communities to build supportive networks of care and resilience that are a resource for difficult times.
Matilda is a climate activist, mother and grandmother, educator, knitter and artist. She is a core organizer at Knittingforclimate, and believes that by using our hands and bodies, we can change the narrative, and draw attention to the absolute need to end fossil fuel extraction. Knittingforclimate uses soft materials to push for sharp demands. It is a movement of people using knitting to express their concern about climate change and the lack of adequate government action. They have been knitting huge red lines to make the point that the 1.5°C climate target should not be exceeded. For example, a 1.5 km red line, created by knitters across Europe, was used in an action outside the European Parliament.
Michael is a Ugandan road safety advocate, environmentalist, and automotive technician specializing in engine management systems, vehicular emission control, and electric mobility adoption. With a background in information technology, his work also extends to waste management and transportation safety. He is the founder of Autosafety Uganda, a multi-award-winning, community-driven program dedicated to promoting safe, clean, and sustainable transportation to enhance environmental health and road safety in Uganda. Driven by a deep passion for road safety and environmental sustainability, Michael remains committed to developing innovative solutions for a cleaner, safer future in Uganda and beyond.
Nellie is on a mission to foster resilient and sustainable communities through intergenerational connection and creative placemaking. As managing director of DearTomorrow, a global climate storytelling organization, she inspires individuals to share their vision of a renewed future, and commit to preserving the planet for those they love. Collaborating with partners worldwide, Nellie develops innovative programs, immersive exhibits, and capacity-building resources. With a background in museums and educational organizations in New York City, Nellie’s transition to climate-focused work was driven by a deep love for her young twins and a commitment to ensuring a thriving future for generations to come.
Payal is a parent and wildlife educator. She started her career in wildlife documentaries, but her work now involves empowering teachers, communities and children to tackle climate despair by building empathy for nature and celebrating conservation successes. For over two decades she has led capacity building workshops all over India including the north eastern states to foster holistic grassroots change. She specializes in designing interactive workshops and curricula that make conservation accessible and engaging. Her current project on the 1OCEAN program with the Zoo Outreach Organization Team is integrating storytelling, art, drama and experiential learning to inspire community engagement, build networks and cultivate a scientific temperament towards dealing with the climate crisis in keeping with the Ocean Decade goals.
Urmi Buragohain is a mom who belongs to the Tai-Ahom community in Assam in Northeast India. Trained as an architect and an urban planner, she is currently working as a placemaking practitioner and social entrepreneur. She is the founding director of PlaceMaking Foundation, a non-profit organisation with a mission to bring about long term transformative changes to public spaces through meaningful conversations, cross-collaboration, and enduring partnerships. With over two decades of international experience as a sustainable built environment professional, she is inspiring a new generation of placemakers and demonstrating how the placemaking process can bring about a sense of belonging in public places and help address complex issues like pollution. She is also spearheading the clean air movement in Northeast India through Warrior Moms, an Indian parents group fighting for children’s right to breathe clean air.
Some 41 organizers from 25 countries were supported in our first three Fellowship cohorts. Read the bios of our former Fellows here and learn about their vital work.
What do our former Fellows say?
“The Fellowship has widened my view. I have had a chance to witness the great work of parents all over the world. I have a chance to work with them and learn from them. I have had a chance to transfer their spirit to Vietnamese parents.”
“This Fellowship has allowed me to not only grow as a leader but how to learn to be a good one. It was invaluable being given the time to really develop and build the foundations of the parent climate movement in New Zealand.”
“The Climate Parent Fellowship has been the kickstarter for bigger and better climate action. It has helped grow the Rodzice dla Klimatu movement. Now we are working on a lot of fields simultaneously and breaking through the climate bubble that it is so challenging to get out of.”
“It gives you confidence, it gives you the idea that there is a world, a family beyond your immediate locality, you now have a global family that you can talk to and share your experiences with. So when it says it connects, empowers and supports that is exactly what the Fellowship does.”
“It has been an invaluable incubator for creativity, problem solving and community-driven climate organizing. We have so much to learn from and with each other and this Fellowship has been an invaluable place to connect, reflect and grow new ideas and approaches.”