These in-their-own-words pieces are told to Patricia Lane and co-edited with input from the interviewee for the purpose of brevity.

Isabella Wen helps those directly impacted by climate change find their voice. This 18-year-old high school student from Surrey, British Columbia, is a Starfish Canada 2026 Climate75 Fellow. She is also media team lead for the food sovereignty conversation hosted by UBC’s Health Together project. Inside Nyéléni: Conversations on Food Sovereignty has reached over 1,000 community leaders. She has taught a public-speaking series, Loudly Together, to over 300 youth in Ghana, Afghanistan and the United States. She is also the founder and co-host of Rose Tinted Ceilings, a podcast helping young women find their place in leadership.

Tell us about your work with Nyéléni.

My responsibility is to create compelling media and stories that help more people engage with the conversations unfolding through our interview series Inside Nyéléni, a project of Health Together in UBC’s department of family practice.

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