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

Leila Pozzi is making it easier for children and youth everywhere to talk about climate change. This 19-year-old Starfish Canada Climate75 Fellow from Montreal has developed and tested a framework to allow teachers and student leaders, regardless of geography or social context, to engage young audiences.

Tell us about your project.

I am very worried about how little pressure decision-makers feel to act on climate and protect nature, and I know we need to talk about it more. But we are all so different.

As part of my CÉJEP coursework with Dawson College's social change and solidarity program, I travelled to Cuba to learn how young people there talk about climate with each other and their decision-makers. Cuba is interesting because we were encouraged to see it as a leader for low-carbon living. But I learned they are not driven by a moral imperative, but rather by their lived experience. Their society has been deeply shaped by the United States embargo in place since the 1960s. Necessity has motivated their........

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