Xiye Bastida

Xiye Bastida started organizing Fridays For Future climate strikes during her student days, culminating in the 2019 youth-led march in New York City, which drew more than 300,000 participants. Honoring her roots in the Otomi-Toltec Indigenous community in central Mexico, she champions Indigenous knowledge as a climate solution and continues to rally young people from the Global South to join the movement. In 2020, she cofounded the Re-Earth Initiative, which focuses on providing resources and knowledge to frontline communities. She is an ambassador to the UN Climate Change High-Level Champions.