Youth Leadership in the Climate Crisis
Anna Siegel |
TEDxDirigo
• November 2019
Anna Siegel shares her innocent journey from a backyard birder to the front steps of City Hall leading the youth climate action in Maine as a 13-year-old.
Anna Siegel is a 13-year-old youth climate activist, currently at the Friends School of Portland. She is a member of 350 Maine and Maine Youth for Climate Justice, as well as a representative of US Youth Climate Strikes (USYCS). As the Maine State Lead from USYCS, she organized the March 15th climate strike and rally in Portland, which had over 800 youth in attendance, and the September 20th global climate strike with over 1,000 youth attending in Portland. Along with activism, she is deeply passionate about wildlife and birds.