Niria Alicia is a Xicana storyteller, scholar and organizer whose activism and advocacy work is rooted in her spirituality and undying love for her community and for the environment. A first-generation student, Niria graduated Phi Beta Kappa with Cum Laude honors from the University of Oregon with B.A’s in Environmental Studies, Latin American Studies and a minor in Non-profit Administration. Her research focused on women-led grassroots environmental and social justice movements in the U.S. and Latin America. As a writer she has contributed to several environmental blogs, local newspapers and magazines and has written about the effects that pesticides, pipelines and climate change have on marginalized communities. Niria is passionate about the rising and empowerment of the younger generations and works to create the change that is needed for the survival of the next 7.

Orion Camero is an arts activist and coalition builder with Stockton-based anti-water privatization nonprofit Restore the Delta and the internationally known Beehive Design Collective, among others. A 2015 Brower Youth Award winner and a California youth delegate at the U.N. climate talks in Paris (COP21), Morocco (COP22), and Germany (COP23), his work centers on visual storytelling education projects applying an interdisciplinary approach of the arts as a catalyst for critical research and analysis. Camero’s work recognizes that efforts to address climate change and the ecological crisis are systematically tied to social, economic, and cultural oppression.