Mayana (she/ella) is a visual artist, writer in training, and intersectional climate justice activist using different avenues of creation to not only tell her story, but amplify the ones of her community. She is committed to actively promoting the knowledge and mindset that supports global awareness of environmental and racial injustices working with national and local climate organizations.  Mayana is working as Outreach Coordinator with SustainUS and  Programming Fellow for the 2023 Convergence with Power Shift! Born and raised on unceded Lenape land, also known as Brooklyn NY – her Black and Latina roots play a big role in the importance of community care. Mayana is a recent graduate with a BA Degree Double Majoring in History and Peace & Justice Studies with a minor in Environmental Art and Social Practices. Throughout college she worked with a variety of national and international climate and intersectional social justice organizations with a lens in art, outreach, media, education, and organizing. This climate work includes organizing at the UN Youth Climate summit 2019, collaborating with Klimadelgation, Engajamundo, M4BL, Blue Future, PSN, Global Green New Deal conversations and more.

Being this is her first time at COP she hopes to lead in a decentralized way where everyone in the group brings there own wisdom to the collaborative process. Leading with art, storytelling and community care in the way she knows best.

Email: Mayana.nell@sustainus.org    |     Website: curlymayana.com

Alexia Leclercq is a grassroots organizer, educator, scholar, and artist. She has led dozens of environmental justice campaigns from passing national climate and chemical reform legislation and fighting for clean water, to addressing aggregate mining pollutions, relocating toxic tank farms, organizing mutual aid reaching. Alexia is the co-founder of the Colorado River Conservancy and Start:Empowerment, a social-environmental justice education non-profit. Her education curriculum has reached over 120,000 students across the United States and work has been recognized by the NYC Department of Education, NYU Global Awards Center, and was awarded the prestigious Brower Youth Award and Jericho Activism Prize. She served as the 2022 UN Youth Assembly Ambassador and has also been invited to speak at various events such as the Global Peace Education Conference, Bioneers conference, CUNY Climate Education Conference, and Princeton University etc. Alexia graduated Summa Cum Laude from New York University where she published research on the commodification of land, and the impact of climate health during covid-19 and is currently a graduate student at Harvard University.

You can read more about her work at alexialeclercq.com