Xiye Bastida
Climate Activist | Inspiring Youth-Led Change
Xiye Bastida is a Climate Activism speaker who has appeared at 2 events including TED 2020 and TED, most recently in 2020.
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Xiye Bastida is a Mexican-Chilean climate activist and community organizer. As a co-founder of the Fridays for Future movement in New York City, she has mobilized thousands of young people to demand climate action.
Bastida's TEDx talks have inspired global audiences with her personal stories of environmental justice and indigenous wisdom. Drawing on her background in environmental engineering, she empowers communities to build sustainable solutions from the grassroots up.
Xiye's keynotes provide a hopeful vision for the future, showing how youth leaders can drive systemic change.
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If you adults won't save the world, we will
In a deeply moving letter to her grandmother, Xiye Bastida reflects on what led her to become a leading voice for global climate activism -- from mobilizing school climate strikes to speaking at the United Nations Climate Summit alongside Greta Thunberg -- and traces her resolve, resilience and profound love of the earth to the values passed down to her. "Thank you for inviting me to love the world since the moment I was born," she says.
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