Where global ambition meets local action

Wade Grant, a member of the Musqueam First Nation in Vancouver, is deeply committed to serving his community and advocating for Indigenous rights. As the Intergovernmental Affairs Officer for the Musqueam First Nation, he fosters crucial relationships and represents Musqueam interests. His leadership extends province-wide through his roles as Board Chair of the First Nations Health Council and the New Relationship Trust, focusing on improving Indigenous health and well-being. He also contributes to supporting vulnerable youth as a board member of Covenant House Vancouver.

Grant's extensive background demonstrates his expertise in governance and policy. He has served as a special advisor on First Nations issues to the Premier of British Columbia, bringing vital Indigenous perspectives to provincial decision-making. His experience includes serving on the Vancouver Police Board, working in economic development, and serving as a Musqueam Indian Band council member. Notably, he was Assistant General Manager of the Four Host Nations Aboriginal Pavilion during the 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games. He has also worked as a policy analyst for the BC Assembly of First Nations and as an executive assistant to the Solicitor General of British Columbia.

Educated at the University of British Columbia, where he earned a BA in Political Science and attended Law School, Grant possesses a strong academic foundation. His contributions have been recognized, including being named to Vancouver Magazine's "Power 50" list and receiving the Queen's Diamond Jubilee medal. He resides on the Musqueam Indian Reserve with his partner and two children, maintaining a strong connection to his community.

Janet Mrenica is located in the traditional, unceded, and ancestral territory of the Anishinaabe and Algonquin Peoples, in Elphin and Ottawa, Ontario. She is a Climate Reality Leader (2021 Latin America and 2024 New York) and the South-Eastern Ontario Regional Organizer with CRPC. She has a long association with the environmental movement.

A curious trilingual award-winning oversight professional, Janet is a Fellow CPA/CMA and is a retired Executive with the Federal Public Service. Through the social enterprise, Taproot.jem.Systems, she now provides Coaching, Facilitation, and consulting services that are grounded in wisdom traditions. She is an Integral Master Coach, Climate Change Coach, a Cultivating Safe Spaces Master Facilitator, is a Trauma-Informed Relationship Coach, and is a volunteer Bereavement Facilitator.

She has held Climate Grief and Gratitude circles virtually and on-site in South Africa and Cuba.

Jennifer Nathan has a BSc in Biology and an MEd and has worked as a park naturalist, biotechnician, and science teacher. Her passion for the natural world led to a deep dive into climate policy and ultimately her arrest on Burnaby Mountain for opposing the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion when it was approved without considering the climate implications of the increased emissions the project facilitates. She has provided talks as a Climate Reality Canada leader, Regenerate BC facilitator, and for many other groups and projects. When not outside hiking, she is continually pushing for climate policies that follow the science.

"I am excited to meet with fellow citizens hungry for climate action, to move our communities and governments to follow the science of phasing down fossil fuel production and speeding up the transition to the solutions we already know we have."

Yasmin is President and Co-Founder of Kambo Energy Group, a social enterprise that reduces energy poverty and improves housing in communities that have historically been underprioritized across the pacific northwest. For over 14 years, Kambo has supported communities through its three flagship programs, each designed to address a unique gap in the market: Empower Me, an education and awareness program designed to support environmental justice communities; the Home Upgrades Program, a first deep energy retrofit program to reduce energy poverty; and Community Power, which works with Tribal and First Nations to take action on housing.

Yasmin is a leading expert in equity based energy and climate programming, working with governments and utilities across North America to design and deliver inclusive solutions.

Yasmin has assembled an employee roster representative of the communities they serve – 83% identify as visible minority, immigrant and/or multilingual, and 59% of employees are female.

Andrea Reimer is a long-time community organizer working to advance economic, social and environmental justice. In 2002, she was elected to the Vancouver School Board, and then to three terms on the Vancouver City Council where she led the Greenest City initiative and was instrumental in making Vancouver the first major city in the Americas to commit to 100% renewable energy.

From 2008 to 2018, Andrea was appointed to the Metro Vancouver Regional District, helped found the BC Municipal Climate Leadership Council, and was vice chair of the national Green Municipal Fund.

Andrea received a Loeb Fellowship at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. She founded Tawâw Strategies, teaches about power at University of British Columbia, and is the lead designer for Simon Fraser University’s new Climate Action Certificate program.

Andrea is a director of TransLink, elected to the World Future Council, sits on the BC Climate Solutions Council, and has sat on the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Steering Committee. She has received the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee award and the World Green Building Council Chairman’s award.

Clara (she/her) is an organizer, advocate, and intersectional feminist working with WTC, a non-profit that aims to radically shift power to reshape who cities are built by and for. She works alongside equity-deserving communities to demystify and influence local governments on issues such as housing affordability, accessible transportation, and gender-based violence. Clara leads WTC's Watch Council program, which holds elected officials accountable on their commitments to underrepresented communities, and was the lead author of WTC's report on the TRC Calls to Action in local government.

"Cities are ripe sites of resistance in the daunting crises facing our movement. Policy shifts often start locally and are then scaled up nationally and internationally. I'm looking forward to mapping the connections between climate solutions and equity to help us imagine the transformation that is possible through broad-based organizing and movements that are rooted in stubborn hope."

Kevin Lindsay is a 30-year tech industry veteran, leadership coach, consultant, university lecturer and climate organizer. A Climate Reality Leader (NYC, 2024), Kevin currently serves as Chair of Nanaimo Climate Action Hub (NCAH), a grassroots non-profit organization whose purpose is to advance solutions that reflect the urgency of the climate emergency through advocacy, local initiatives, and collaboration with other organizations. His awareness of the climate crisis developed after watching Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth nearly two decades ago, and his involvement in the climate movement began in 2020 as a Game Changer Intensive moderator at Pachamama Alliance. Kevin holds an MA in Transformative Leadership from the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), where he focused on—and developed a passion for—systems thinking. Originally from Calgary, Alberta, Kevin lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for sixteen years before moving to Vancouver Island with his partner Sharon. Kevin advocates for deliberate and coordinated individual actions as the foundation for community-level impact, and systems-level change.

"It is well-understood that humans created the climate crisis through our actions. But no individual bears the responsibility for the mess in which we find ourselves. While every day I struggle with my own complicity, I remind myself that we are part of a system that intentionally fed our fossil fuel dependency, and that I am now part of a growing collective movement working hard to address the emergency. There are many individual actions that we can take, but it is only through the ripples they create that a real difference can be made. More voices and more feet on the ground get noticed, yes— but true collaboration means creative organizing, and actions that leverage the unique skills of many. Not just louder, but more clever—and more impactful! Collaboration also means we’ve got each other’s backs. Climate activism is hard and thankless, and it’s critical to take a break sometimes. We need each other to step in when one of us is weary, or perhaps burning out. I am confident that we will prevail through collaboration and the co-creation of solutions."

Prior to joining Stand as a Climate Campaigner in 2023, Sunil worked for the səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh Nation) to support the development of land rights on reserve. His community organizing began with Force of Nature Alliance, a grassroots environmental organization based in Metro Vancouver, where he collaborated with local citizens, community leaders, and elected officials to reduce emissions and to bring about positive environmental change.

Outside of work, Sunil continues to organize with various social and environmental organizations, including as director for Force of Nature Alliance and for KEATCA, a public post-secondary education endowment fund that supports individuals in Canada living below the poverty line through annual grants.

In his spare time, Sunil enjoys biking around Metro Vancouver, visiting Vancouver Island to beach comb, and exploring different neighbourhoods.

"As we’ve seen with countless local climate fights over the past year, when a cross section of people from society come together, people power prevails. We saw this most recently in the high-stakes debate in Vancouver, where grassroots climate orgs, health practitioners, builders and others successfully won in keeping gas out of homes in Vancouver. This is why collaboration is so important in order to pass and defend ambitious climate policies."

Former Vice President Al Gore is the founder and chairman of The Climate Reality Project, a founding partner and chairman of Generation Investment Management, and a co-founder of Climate TRACE. He is also a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Gore was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1976, 1978, 1980, and 1982 and to the U.S. Senate in 1984 and 1990. He was inaugurated as the 45th vice president of the United States on January 20, 1993, and served eight years. He is the author of the #1 New York Times best-sellers “An Inconvenient Truth” and “The Assault on Reason,” and the best-sellers “Earth in the Balance,” “Our Choice: A Plan To Solve the Climate Crisis,” “The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change,” and most recently, The New York Times best-seller “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power.” He is the subject of the documentary movie “An Inconvenient Truth,” which won two Oscars in 2006 — and a second documentary in 2017, “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power.” In 2007, Gore was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, along with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, for “informing the world of the dangers posed by climate change.

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