Adriana Laurent (she/her) is originally from Honduras, and is a queer, mixed race immigrant who is passionate about the intersections of climate change, race, gender and migration and has been organizing on these issues for 6 years at an institutional and grassroots level. This was also the topic of her policy paper when she was a YPP participant. Adriana was a co-founder and staff at the Climate Hub at UBC, was a consultant for the City of Vancouver on the scoping of their Climate Justice Charter, and she has also organized international mutual aid projects and grassroots youth climate and abolitionist organizing. She’s been involved with Vancouver Foundation through several grant adjudication processes, as a facilitator for the YPP programme and as a Consultant for the YPP alumni engagement. She worked as Digital Campaigner at Leadnow and an Equity and Inclusion Strategist at Bakau Consulting. She now works at the City of Vancouver as the Senior Social Planner in Climate, Equity and Reconciliation.