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

Celine Isimbi empowers her fellow university students to link their concerns to climate justice. This 23-year-old University of Waterloo student brought together advocates for student issues, including affordable housing, health care, low wages, personal safety, racialization impacts and others in the UW Climate Justice Ecosystem to speak with a common voice.

Tell us about your project.

Toward the end of our second year, my co-founder Michelle Angkasa and I realized we had many regrets about both our own experiences as students and others on this campus. As a Black woman, my safety had been threatened without appropriate institutional protection. International students often worked to cover living expenses but were not paid a living wage. Many of our fellow students were hungry and inadequately housed.

Much of this suffering was silent. Advocates were working in silos. Michelle and I wanted to bring people together and bring the suffering out into the open. When we did, all could see that the injustices are linked to the same forces burning our planet.

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