Alexia (she/they) is an environmental justice organizer and interdisciplinary artist and based in Austin, TX. They have worked in the climate space for the past 5 years. Right now they are a researcher, organizer, and campaign manager with PODER, an Indigenous led grassroots environmental justice org, where they worked on various issues from preserving the Colorado River, fighting land use policy and zoning that enforces race-based discrimination, addressing aggregate mining issues, conducting ethnographic research on climate health, to organizing mutual aid, youth programming, and shaping national legislation alongside members of the Environmental Justice Leadership Forum and the Environmental Justice Health Alliance. Alexia is also the co-founder of Start: Empowerment, a BIPOC led social and environmental justice education non-profit working with youth, educators, activists, and community members to implement justice-focused education and programming in schools and community spaces. S:E curriculum and programming has reached over 2,000 students, been recognized by the NYC Department of Education, and taught in universities. In 2021, their work was recognized by the prestigious Brower Youth Award. They graduated summa cum laude from NYU (’20), where they self-designed a major titled “The Politics and Economics of Inequality.” They are now pursuing a master at Harvard starting the fall of 2022. alexialeclercq.com