2021 Finalist

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Christine Enid Nieves Rodríguez

Christine is piloting and implementing a cutting-edge leadership curriculum that trains Puerto Rican youth in a framework called “Climate Courage.” Climate Courage encompasses the cognitive, emotional, collective, and spiritual skills necessary to release ground-breaking solutions and meet insurmountable obstacles with tools that ensure humanity, justice, and compassion are present in moments of great peril and transformation. She is an author and speaker and contributed to the climate book All We Can Save: Truth, Courage and Solutions for the climate crisis. You can learn more about her work at www.ChristineNieves.net.