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Aliénor (Allie) Rougeot | 20 | Toronto | Climate Justice Activist, Fridays for Future | SDGs: 8, 11, 13, 16
If you participated in one of the nearly 300 climate strikes that took place across Canada, you can thank the passionate climate organizers that made Fridays for Future demonstrations a reality. In Toronto, that’s head strike organizer Aliénor Rougeot (or Allie, as she’s known). She has been a human rights and environmental activist since the age of 10 and these days is focused on building a Climate Strike coalition that includes traditional environmental, Indigenous and migrant rights groups as well as racialized youth and workers. What inspired her to join the strike movement? “I was active in the different sustainability groups on campus. However, I felt very frustrated encouraging small, individual changes to students.” A gnawing sense that “we need to question the whole system” drove her to take on strike organizing and speaking at schools to try to inspire more university students to get engaged. “My dream would be that every student graduating in 2020 and 2021 feels as though they are a climate leader, no matter which field they go into.” Image courtesy of Toronto Star.
Aliénor (Allie) Rougeot | 20 | Toronto | Climate Justice Activist, Fridays for Future | SDGs: 8, 11, 13, 16
If you participated in one of the nearly 300 climate strikes that took place across Canada, you can thank the passionate climate organizers that made Fridays for Future demonstrations a reality. In Toronto, that’s head strike organizer Aliénor Rougeot (or Allie, as she’s known). She has been a human rights and environmental activist since the age of 10 and these days is focused on building a Climate Strike coalition that includes traditional environmental, Indigenous and migrant rights groups as well as racialized youth and workers. What inspired her to join the strike movement? “I was active in the different sustainability groups on campus. However, I felt very frustrated encouraging small, individual changes to students.” A gnawing sense that “we need to question the whole system” drove her to take on strike organizing and speaking at schools to try to inspire more university students to get engaged. “My dream would be that every student graduating in 2020 and 2021 feels as though they are a climate leader, no matter which field they go into.” Image courtesy of Toronto Star.
