During this webinar, staff and volunteers with Climate Cardinals will share about:
- How Climate Cardinals started with a small group of high school students identifying a gap in climate accessibility and education, and have grown to over 16,000 volunteers and translated climate information into over 105 languages
- How Climate Cardinals empowers young people to educate and mobilize communities for climate action
- How their youth platform can serve as a model and empower diverse decision makers
- How to engage in intergenerational partnerships and what equitable partnerships with youth look like
Learn more about Climate Cardinals here.
Meet Our Speakers!
Hikaru Hayakawa
Hikaru Wakeel Hayakawa is a twenty-two year-old Caribbean and Japanese American climate justice activist, Indigenous Studies researcher, and social entrepreneur.
Hayakawa is the Vice President and a founding director of Climate Cardinals, the world’s largest youth- led climate advocacy organization with 16,000 volunteers in 82 countries and 100 chapters in 33 countries. Hayakawa established Climate Cardinals’ signature translation program in partnership with Translators Without Borders and Google Cloud. As a full-time student, he expanded Climate Cardinals’ translation capacity to a million words per year, handled translation requests for over two million words of climate information, and fundraised for a six-figure budget, with Climate Cardinals becoming one of the first-ever youth-led organizations to be funded by Google’s philanthropic branch.
Hayakawa also represents Climate Cardinals as part of UNESCO’s Youth Climate Action Network Steering Committee, a network of networks that represents over 10 million youth climate activists. Hayakawa has spoken about his work for the Smithsonian, the UN Development Programme, the Italian Ministry of the Environment, the March On Foundation, Williams College, and the U.S. Interagency Group on Climate Literacy. His work has also been featured in Axios, the Guardian, Forbes, and Teen Vogue.
Jennifer Evans
Jennifer serves as the Climate Cardinals’ first ever Chief Operating Officer, combining her passions of climate action, language access, youth leadership, and international affairs. Jennifer received a B.A in Environmental Studies and Sociology from St. Lawrence University with minors in Spanish and Caribbean Latin American Studies. In 2022, she graduated in the inaugural class of Columbia University’s Climate School, receiving a Master of Arts in Climate and Society. During her graduate studies she helped to develop and lead the “Climate Justice in New York City” workshop, which focused on the impacts of climate change on extremely at-risk communities in New York City.
Jennifer’s most recent roles include Research Assistant with the Center for Climate Systems Research at Columbia University and NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies as well as Climate Equity Fellow with the USDA Northeast Climate Hub. As a fellow, Jennifer led the development of GradCAMP, a cohort of graduate students passionate about incorporating justice and equity into their climate research and created a Climate Equity Toolkit. Her career has focused on researching the impacts of climate change on vulnerable communities, adaptation solutions, resilience-building, as well as climate justice and equity.
Outside of her passion for climate action, Jennifer can be found skiing, coaching alpine racing with the Jackson Hole Ski Club, hiking, and biking in the Tetons in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
Anabel Roza
Anabel Roza is one of many dedicated volunteers working for Climate Cardinals: the world’s largest youth-led climate advocacy organization. Anabel works with the Climate Cardinals fundraising strategy taskforce to find grants and opportunities for growth to support the organization, and she will soon be taking over as the Regional President of North America for the Chapters Program. She received her B.S in Business Economics with a minor in Environmental Studies from University of Wisconsin, with her studies focusing on the intersection of sustainability business practices and renewable energy markets. Anabel joined the Navy as an Officer upon graduating from college, and spent time living and working in San Diego, CA and Yokosuka, Japan. She currently works in the Naval Engineering and Environmental Department in Everett, Washington. She is transitioning out of the Navy this fall, and hoping to continue to use her leadership and communication skills, and passion for sustainability and the environment in her efforts towards policy change, climate advocacy, and in her future career.
Anabel spends her free time exploring the Salish Sea and the Cascade Mountains in Washington state, running, and playing with her dog, Grizzly.
