#Solvingit26 Honoree
Xiye Bastida, Mexico
“That's super important for us to be optimists as climate activists, because it means we believe in our power to change the world.”
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Xiye Bastida is a climate justice advocate who organizes with Fridays for Future and is a co-founder of the Re-Earth Initiative. She moved to New York from Mexico after her hometown was hit by massive flooding, and she is passionate about sharing her Indigenous background in the fight for climate action.
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