Ana Badillo: Bringing families together to secure a healthy environment for children in Ecuador. Ana Badillo is an economist, researcher, and painter who blends evidence-based insights with everyday experiences to mobilize people in the fight for environmental justice. As part of her 2024 – 2025 Climate Parent Fellowship, [...]
Dr. Susan Pacheco: “If people really understood how climate change and air pollution is damaging their children’s health, the tone of the global climate conversation would change.” Dr. Susan Pacheco is the mother of three grown children and a professor of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology at McGovern [...]
Beree Vanjil: Helping families in Mongolia cope with a rapidly changing climate Beree is a mother, social worker, and art therapist from Mongolia. She and her eight siblings grew up in a nomadic herding family headed by a widowed mother. Mongolia is extremely vulnerable to climate impacts, [...]
Senarath Dewage: Tackling air pollution in Sri Lanka Senarath Dewage, a software developer, made the connection between air pollution and health when he witnessed his 7 month old daughter struggling to breathe a few weeks after moving back to Sri Lanka from New Zealand. Now his 8 [...]
Shristi Singh Bhandari: Protecting nature and the next generation in Nepal Shristi Singh Bhandari is an environmental and animal rights activist from Kathmandu, Nepal committed to finding solutions that will help protect our natural environment for future generations. Shristi says that working with animals and becoming a [...]
Valinda Chan: Breathing Clean Air Is a Human Right - Working for Environmental Justice in the US Valinda Chan is a passionate organizer and community leader in East Boston, Massachusetts working at the intersection between environmental, racial, economic, health, and housing justice. Recently Valinda’s work has focused on [...]
Nic Seton: How well-organised parents are wielding their growing power to challenge greenwashing in Australia – and win climate campaigns Nic Seton is CEO of Australia’s Parents for Climate, a growing national network of nearly 22,000 parents. Before joining the group in 2021, Nic spent 15 years [...]
Kamila Kadzidlowska: “Mother love drives our work in Poland -- and it’s making a difference” Kamila is a documentary filmmaker and a key organizer in Poland’s dynamic group Rodzice dla Klimatu (Parents for Climate). She developed a short film called In the Fumes of the Black Gold that [...]
Gargi Maitra: “Kids can’t play outdoors because of the poor air” Gargi Maitra, from Kolkata, India, works with SwitchON Foundation as the Outreach Lead and New Initiatives Manager for Clean Air Network. She was also the co-founder of Kolkata Clean Air. Gargi was inspired to work in [...]
Jennifer Smith: “The air smelt like a campfire.” Forest fires and parent climate action in Canada Jennifer Smith is a founding member and a lead organizer of Pour nos enfants / For Our Kids Montréal, a group of families dedicated to climate action, and Mère au front [...]
