OUR TEAM

The YCFA staff is composed of a multi-racial, multi-ethnic group of young organizers, all 27 and under, from across the vast geography of the so-called U.S., who have been active in and out of the youth climate movement, some of us for upward of a decade. Each of us has witnessed the horrors of climate destruction and fossil fuel impacts firsthand. Our staff has organized with US Youth Climate Strike, People's Climate Movement, and many successful campus fossil fuel divestment campaigns. 

We know a better world for our families, friends, and communities is possible when we organize for a society built on the values of reciprocity, democratic governance, accountability, and justice.

YCFA staff receives guidance from our adult advisory board, a body of five adults who have spent their careers building the movement for climate justice.

The advisory board supports YCFA’s campaign and fundraising development, ensuring we work alongside partners and build our own institutional knowledge as YCFA develops. Presently, the board consists of members from the following partner organizations:

  • Climate Finance Action,

  • Dayenu: A Jewish Call to Climate Action,

  • Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and 

  • Sunrise Project - Sunrise Organizing Lab.