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Youth Climate Activist – Isra Hirsi

Social Justice Art Teacher

“You are allowed to say your opinion and no one gets to tell you otherwise.”

Isra Hirsi (b. 2003, @israhirsi) is an Africa-American climate activist and coordinated the organization of hundreds of student-led strikes across the United States. She co-founded the U.S. Youth Climate Strike, the American arm of a global youth climate change movement, in January 2019.

 

A soft watercolor of a young woman in a window in pink, blue, and green. She has curly black hair, glasses, and she looks toward us as a butterfly flies nearby. Green leaves peep out of the window. Text in bold dark blue is the same as above quote.



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