Puyr Tembé, is a prominent Indigenous activist of the Tembé Indigenous peoples from Alto Rio Guamá in the Brazilian Amazon, and the First Secretary of Indigenous Peoples of the State of Pará. She is also a Co-founder of The National Association of Indigenous Ancestral Women Warriors (ANMIGA). Puyr's advocacy is featured in the award-winning film “We Are Guardians,” which highlights the efforts of Indigenous forest guardians and Earth Defenders in protecting the Amazon from illegal logging and mining.

Wawa Gatheru is a Kenyan-American climate activist and founder, passionate about bringing empathetic and accessible climate communication to the mainstream. Harnessing her academic background as a Rhodes Scholar and her work as a youth climate activist, Wawa’s life goal is to help create a climate movement made in the image of all of us. She is the founder of Black Girl Environmentalist, a national organization dedicated to empowering Black girls, women, and gender expansive people across the climate sector. In 2019, Wawa was named the first Black person in history to receive the prestigious Rhodes, Truman and Udall scholarships for her environmental scholarship and activism. She is an inaugural member of the National Environmental Youth Advisory Council of the US EPA, the first federal youth-led advisory board in the US History, and sits on boards and advisory councils for Greenpeace USA, EarthJustice, Climate Power, the National Parks Conservation Association, Good Energy, and Sound Future.

First woman President of Ireland and former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights; former Chair of The Elders; a passionate advocate for gender equality, women’s participation in peace-building, human dignity and climate justice.

Wahleah Johns is a member of the Navajo (Diné) tribe and comes from northeastern Arizona. She is a former Director of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs. In this role, she was responsible for upholding and advancing the Office of Indian Energy’s mission to maximize the development and deployment of energy solutions for the benefit of American Indians and Alaska Natives. Her background is in renewable energy and community organizing, having co-founded Native Renewables, a nonprofit that builds renewable energy tribal capacity while addressing energy access. Johns' work with the Black Mesa Water Coalition and Navajo Green Economy Coalition has led to groundbreaking legislative victories for groundwater protection, green jobs, and environmental justice. In 2019, she was awarded the Nathan Cummings Foundation Fellowship.

Christiana Figueres is an internationally recognized leader on climate change. She was Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change from 2010 to 2016, where she oversaw the delivery of the historic Paris Agreement. Today she is the co-founder of Global Optimism, co-host of the podcast “Outrage & Optimism” and is the co-author of the recently published book, “The Future We Choose.”

Casey Camp-Horinek of the Ponca Nation is a community leader, long-time Native rights activist, Environmental Ambassador, actress, and WECAN Board Member, international advisor and Ponca Program Coordinator. As traditional Drumkeeper for the Ponca Pa-tha-ta, Woman’s Scalp Dance Society, Camp-Horinek helps maintain the cultural identity of the Ponca Nation of Oklahoma for herself, her family and her community. She has been at the forefront of grassroots community efforts to educate and empower both Native and non-Native community members on environmental and civil rights issues and she has raised her voice and taken action in countless forums across the world.

Célia Xakriabá is a teacher and Indigenous activist of the Xakriabá people in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. In 2022 she became the first indigenous woman to be elected federal deputy for Minas Gerais, with 101,078 votes. She has a Master’s degree in sustainable development from the University of Brasilia, and is part of the Articulation Rosalino Gomes, present in the North of Minas Gerais, being one of the founders of the National Articulation of Indigenous Women Warriors of Ancestrality (ANMIGA). In 2023, she re-established the Parliamentary Front for the Defense of Indigenous Peoples’ Rights and was elected President of the Commission on the Amazon and Indigenous and Traditional Peoples. In doing so, she became the first Indigenous woman to chair a congressional commission. At COP28, she launched the Planet Caucus, a campaign to defend Indigenous rights, the climate and biodiversity.

Miriam M. Miranda Chamorro, born in the Garifuna community of Santa Fe in the department of Colón, is a Garifuna leader. She names herself as a defender of the human rights of the Garifuna community, of life, and of the cultural survival of her people. She is the current General Coordinator of the Black Fraternal Organization of Honduras (OFRANEH) and has more than 40 years as a defender of the common goods and human rights of the Garifuna people. She received the Carlos Escaleras Environmental Prize in 2016, considered the most important environmental prize in Honduras. In 2015, she received the Oscar Romero Human Rights Prize and the International Food Sovereignty Prize from the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in the United States. Her main struggles center around the defense of Garifuna territories, and she is persecuted and complained about because of her work defending the human and land rights of her people.

Xiye Bastida is a Mexican climate justice activist. She is part of the Otomi-Toltec Indigenous community, located in the highlands of Central Mexico. In April 2020, she convened and co-founded Re-Earth Initiative to highlight frontline communities and advocate for solution-oriented efforts. Xiye has been a leader in the youth climate movement since she started organizing climate strikes and protests in 2019. In September of that year, she co-organized a 300,000-person climate strike in New York. She spoke at the Biden Climate Summit in 2021 in front of 40 heads of state and, later that year, closed the World Leaders Summit at COP26. Xiye wants to bridge the gap of policy, youth inclusion, and funding to empower the movement. Xiye was also named Ambassador to the United Nations High-Level Champions in 2021. She is a commissioner in the Climate Governance Commission alongside Maria Fernanda Espinoza, Johan Rockstrom, and Mary Robinson and serves as a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Champion. Currently, she is the Executive Producer of the upcoming feature film, The Way of the Whale.

María Susana Muhamad González is a Colombian politician with Palestinian roots. She served as Colombia’s Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development from August 2022 to March 2025. Muhamad studied Political Science at the Universidad de los Andes and earned a master’s in planning & management of Sustainable Development from the University of Stellenbosch. Following her education, she worked as a Sustainable Development Consultant for Shell Global Solutions International in The Hague, the Netherlands. In 2012, Muhamad was appointed Bogotá’s Secretary of the Environment. A year later, she became Secretary General of the Mayor’s Office. In 2019, she was elected Councilor of Bogotá. Muhamad is a renowned environmentalist in Colombia and abroad. Her efforts are directed at positioning Colombia as a world power of life. Her advocacy centers around establishing compliance with international agreements on climate change and biodiversity loss, protecting environmental defenders, and fighting against deforestation in the Amazon region.

Chair of the Sámi Parliament’s Youth Council

Amy Westervelt is an award-winning investigative climate journalist who has been on the climate beat for more than 20 years, reporting for a wide range of outlets, including Inside Climate News, The Washington Post, The Guardian, NPR, and many more. In 2017, she started the podcast production company Critical Frequency, which launched the first "true-crime" climate podcast, Drilled, in 2018. Today, Drilled has expanded into a multimedia investigative newsroom focused on climate accountability, and Critical Frequency has produced more than two dozen narrative, reported podcasts on subjects ranging from Indigenous rights to climate litigation. In 2023, Amy was named a Covering Climate Now’s Journalist of the Year. Her work has previously received Murrow, ONA, SEJ, Rachel Carson, and Folio awards, as well as a Peabody nomination.

Rosa Galvez is a civil-environmental engineer, an associate professor at Laval University, an independent senator for the province of Quebec, and President of the ParlAmericas’ Parliamentary Network on Climate Change and Sustainability. At the Senate, she is a member of the Standing Committee on Energy, the Environment and Natural Resources and of the Standing Committee on National Finance. In March 2022, she published a white paper on Aligning Canadian Finance with Climate Commitments, which led to the introduction of Bill S-243, the Climate-Aligned Finance Act, legislation to help guide Canada’s financial sector in its transition to a net-zero economy. Her parliamentary work on climate and the environment has earned her several awards, including the Clean50 Award 2021, the 2022 Ecological Society of America Regional Policy Award, and the 2023 Top 25 Women of Influence Award.

Meena Raman is the Head of Programmes of Third World Network (TWN) and is based in Malaysia. She is also the President of Friends of the Earth, Malaysia (Sahabat Alam), which is a member of Friends of the Earth International. As Legal adviser to the Consumers’ Association of Penang in Malaysia, she currently heads its Community Mobilization Section, which works with farmers and fisherfolk. She has served as chair of Friends of the Earth International (2004-2008), an international organization with 77 member groups. At Third World Network, Meena currently coordinates the climate change program and has been actively involved in the intergovernmental climate negotiations, from Bali to Cancún. She has been monitoring and reporting on the negotiations and providing analysis and support both to developing country governments as well as to civil society participants. Upon graduation in 1982, Meena and a colleague set up the first public interest law firm in Malaysia, which launched her legal practice assisting consumers. In the past 25 years, she has represented the organizations she works with at numerous conferences and presented papers on issues ranging from environmental and consumer protection to climate change, agriculture and fisheries, and globalization and trade.

Sandrine Dixson-Declève is an international and European climate, energy, sustainable development, sustainable finance, complex systems thought leader. She is currently the Co-President of the Club of Rome and divides her time between lecturing, facilitating change in business and policy models and advisory work. She holds several advisory positions for the European Commission: Chair, Expert Group on Economic and Societal Impact of Research & Innovation (ESIR); Assembly Member, Climate Mitigation & Adaptation Mission (DGR&I); TEG Sustainable Finance Taxonomy and Sustainable Finance Platform (DGFISMA); United Nations: Food Summit Action Track 5 Resilience and for companies/organisations/institutes such as BMW, UBM, Climate KIC, UCL-Bartlett School of Enviornment and the IEEP. Sandrine is also a Senior Associate and faculty member of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) and a Senior Associate for E3G, Ambassador, for the Energy Transition Commission (ETC) and WEALL. In 2017 Sandrine co-founded the Women Enablers Change Agent Network (WECAN).

Neema Namadamu is a visionary peacemaker from Bukavu, South Kivu Province in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where she advocates for peace, women’s rights, rights for persons with disabilities, rights for Indigenous pygmy peoples, and Rights of Nature. She is Founder and Director of SAFECO, the Synergy of Congolese Women’s Associations and Maman Shujaa: Hero Women of the Congo, through which she has a established a media center for Congolese women to make their voices heard on the range of issues affecting their country. Neema also serves as WECAN International’s Coordinator in the Democratic Republic of Congo. As WECAN DRC Coordinator, Neema leads workshops and trainings with local women to address deforestation, build women’s leadership, support Traditional Ecologic Knowledge, and protect the rich ecosystems of the Itombwe rainforest. In June of 2012 Neema was selected as one of three World Pulse journalists for their annual Live Tour of the U.S., where she spoke before the U.S. Department of State, the Clinton Global Initiative, and was interviewed by CNN.

Mitzi Jonelle Tan is a full-time anti-imperialist climate justice activist based in the Philippines. She was the convenor of Youth Advocates for Climate Action Philippines and co-founder of Fridays for Future Most Affected People and Areas (MAPA). She now serves as Senior Advisor for the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty and Lead of the Climate Justice Squad Fellowship. Her activism is grounded by love, joy, and the deep-rooted knowledge that we can collectively bring down systems of oppression and injustice as we imagine, nurture, and co-create alternative worlds where no one is left behind.

Amy Goodman is the host and executive producer of Democracy Now!, a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program airing on over 1,400 public television and radio stations worldwide. The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard honored Goodman with the 2014 I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence Lifetime Achievement Award. She is also the first journalist to receive the Right Livelihood Award, widely known as the 'Alternative Nobel Prize' for “developing an innovative model of truly independent grassroots political journalism that brings to millions of people the alternative voices that are often excluded by the mainstream media.

Bénédicte Larissa, Director of the company Enagri-Ci (Photovoltaic Solar Energy And Agriculture), Manager Of The First Private Training Institute In Energy And Energy Efficiency In Côte D'ivoire. Technician, Expert And Trainer In Pv Solar Energy. Mentor Since 2024. Advisor Position In The Ivorian Association Of Companies In New And Renewable Energy. Coordinator Of A Business Group Called ''green Companies Or Lev Group.'' 46 Years Old And Mother Of 3 Children, I Have 13 Years Of Experience In My Field. On June 30, 2023, I received an honorary distinction from my Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development for my commitment to the fight against global warming and environmental protection in Côte d'Ivoire. For the Ministry, I am a true source of inspiration, a vision of a habitable world for humanity. Agritech Award Winner On December 12, 2024 At The Hotel Ivoire In Abidjan, Ivory Coast.

Patricia Gualinga is an Indigenous woman leader from the Kichwa Pueblo of Sarayaku, Ecuador, and spokeswoman for Mujeres Amazónicas Defensoras de la Selva where she advocates for the rights of women, Indigenous peoples, and land defenders to protect their homelands, the forest, and the global climate. To further her advocacy for land defenders' protections, Patricia sits on the WECAN steering committee for the Escazú Agreement campaign. Patricia is also an advocate for the Rights of Nature and the Kawsak Sacha (Living Forest) Declaration. Patricia is the WECAN Coordinator in Ecuador, where she leads endemic species recovery and reforestation work. This includes seed collection, nursery building, and workshops that support Traditional Ecological Knowledge, address deforestation, build women’s leadership, and safeguard the ecological integrity of the Ecuadorian Amazon.

Jacqueline Patterson, MSW, MPH, is the Founder and Executive Director of the Chisholm Legacy Project: A Resource Hub for Black Frontline Climate Justice Leadership. She has worked on gender justice, racial justice, economic justice, and environmental/climate justice, with organizations including Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, IMA World Health, United for a Fair Economy, ActionAid, Health GAP, and the organization she co-founded, Women of Color United. Before founding the Chisholm Legacy Project, Patterson served for 11 years as the Senior Director of Environmental and Climate Justice at the NAACP. She currently serves on the Boards of Directors for the Institute of the Black World, National Black Workers Center Project, the Bill Anderson Fund, Ceres, and the Emerald Cities Collaborative, as well as Advisory Boards for the Center for Earth Ethics, the Hive Fund for Gender and Climate Justice, Frontline Justice Fund, the Just Solutions Collective, and the Environmental Justice Movement Fellowship, and she also serves on the Governance Assemblies for Collectrify Fund and Mosaic Momentum Fund.

Noelene Nabulivou is a Pacific small island/large ocean feminist Indigenous activist and community organiser for over 40 years. A co-founder and executive director of Diverse Voices and Action (DIVA) for Equality, Noelene works in local to global processes since 2011 for Gender justice; Sexual rights, Social, Economic, Ecological and Climate Justice. DIVA is the Convenor of Pacific Feminist SRHR Coalition; Pacific Feminist Community of Practice, Women Defend Commons Network, founding member of the Pacific Feminist Alliance for Climate Justice (PIFA4CJ), Co-convenor of the Pacific Lesbian Bisexual and Queer (LBQ) Working Group, Noelene is CSO Co-Chair of the Pacific Gender Coordination Mechanism and holds many social movement roles. Her life work is for liberation, ecological balance and justice on all territories including bodies. Noelene lives and works from Nadi, Fiji.

Daiara Hori Figueroa Sampaio - Duhigô, from the Tukano Indigenous people, Yé'pá Mahs, Eremiri Húusiro Parameri del Alto Río Negro in the Brazilian Amazon. At the time of her birth, her family was living in São Paulo, joining the great indigenous political movement that preceded the Brazilian Constituent Assembly (1987-1988). An artist, teacher, indigenous rights activist, and communicator, Tukano, who holds a postgraduate degree in human rights and is a researcher on indigenous peoples’ right to truth and memory, also coordinated Rádio Yandê, the first indigenous online radio in Brazil. Her work is inseparable from the ancestral culture of the Tukano people who, like other indigenous Amazonian groups, use the native ayahuasca medicine in their rituals. Influenced by this practice, whose mystical visions, known as Hori, permeate all Tukano visual culture, Daiara produces images that evoke aspects of existence that are usually invisible to the eye.

Osprey Orielle Lake is the Founder and Executive Director of the Women's Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN) International, working nationally and internationally with grassroots and frontline women leaders, policy-makers, and diverse coalitions to build women's leadership, climate justice, resilient communities, and a just transition to a decentralized, democratized clean energy future. Osprey was the visionary behind the International Women’s Earth and Climate Summit, which brought together 100 global women leaders to draft and implement a 'Women’s Climate Action Agenda', and co-founded the International Women’s Earth and Climate Initiative (IWECI), the precursor initiative of WECAN International. Osprey is honored to serve on the Executive Committee for the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature, and has been a core organizer of various International Rights of Nature Tribunals. She has served on the board of the Praxis Peace Institute and on the Steering Committee for The UN Women’s Major Group for the Rio+20 Earth Summit. Awards include National Women’s History Project Honoree, Taking The Lead To Save Our Planet, the Woman Of The Year Outstanding Achievement Award from the California Federation Of Business And Professional Women, and the Be the Dream Lifetime Achievement award. Osprey's writing has been featured in publications including The Guardian, Common Dreams, Earth Island Journal, The Ecologist, OpenDemocracy, and EcoWatch, and she is the author of the award-winning books, 'Uprisings for the Earth: Reconnecting Culture with Nature' and The Story is in Our Bones: How Worldviews and Climate Justice Can Remake a World in Crisis.