YOUTH VOICES SHAPING THE FUTURE

Emmanuel Marumbu Misiati is a Kenyan organisational development practitioner and youth-centred facilitator with significant governance experience as an executive facilitator, board member, and chief operations officer in youth-led and community organisations.

He has demonstrated leadership in youth civic engagement and mental health wellbeing, impacting thousands through roles at Taifa Teule Network, Busara Empowerment Organization, and Shiriki.

With a background in Community Development, Misiati enjoys working with teams & communities for impact. Engagements energize him, and people excite his resolve. He is also a wellness & wellbeing facilitator/champion sharing mindful movement & breathwork practices whenever he can. His favorite resilient ritual is yoga, meditation, and taking herbal teas – in that order!

Katie is an award winning changemaker, author, producer and public speaker. As both Conduit’s Young Climate Innovator (2023) and Global Youth Awards Finalist (2018), she has a decade of changemaking experience, physically mobilising over 80,000 people for climate action.

She founded the Resilience Project age 24 after seeing little psychological and inner-led support on offer for young people in navigating burnout and climate anxiety. She has spoken on international stages, with Presidents and CEOs, and sits on IKEA’s Young Global Leaders Board.

After serving as The Resilience Project’s CEO for over five years, Katie now serves as our Executive Director and a Co-Chair for our Board of Stewards.

Eli is a socio-environmental justice activist from Harare, Zimbabwe. They are the Ambassador Program Coordinator for the African Climate Alliance where they equip youth across Africa with the tools to strengthen their confidence in their activist journeys. They have a passion for the intersection between the protection of biodiversity and decolonial thinking as a way of implementing the preservation of nature whilst emphasizing indigenous knowledge systems. They are also a Youth Steering Committee member of Project 90 by 2030’s Support Hub, playing a crucial role in articulating, cocreating and advancing the safety needs of the youth climate movement.

Georgio is a social researcher, political economist, archivist and journalist with a deep commitment to climate justice. Intellectual curiosity and devotion to the building of egalitarian socities is his primary impetus, and the motivation for his involvement with TRP. Having found vital community in PPPause and PPPages, he knows firsthand the power of these spaces to sustain the fight against climate burnout.

Georgio has picked up a few useful tools along the way: a BSc in Economics, an MSc in Political Economy and a growing obsession with history and storytelling. When he’s not reading or writing, you’ll find him knee-deep in a community garden with friends, cycling in the sun, or at a local gig.

Leena is an award-winning social entrepreneur and author. She is the founder and executive director of Climate Conservancy, an international nonprofit, with 9000 volunteers in 70 countries. She has sat on boards and advisory councils for multifarious companies. She’s the CEO and Chair of the Board at EcoVita, Inc. Leena’s work has been profiled by international media outlets, World Bank Group, United Nations.

A UN published researcher, she has served as a research advisor to Imperial College London authoring research papers on climate anxiety. Leena is a prolific public speaker at universities worldwide including Harvard, Oxford, Sciences Po, Cambridge and a TEDx Speaker and spoken at high-level global conferences. Leena is an award-winning poet, environmental artist, intersecting art and climate justice through climate artivism for our planet, with her work appearing in international literary journals, magazines, art galleries, museums, and elsewhere. She has authored books Ethereal and The Climate Awakening.

Lorenz is a psychologist, mediator and organisational developer based in Berlin. He has an intercultural focus and works with organisations on topics like psychological safety, conflict resolution and effective as well as healthy work habits.

He has been involved with The Resilience Project  since 2024 and is deeply passionate about the intersection between change-making, psychology, and dialogue across societal divides.

He also likes spending time with dogs, doing funny sounding breathing exercises, and reading nerdy fantasy books.

Pimpichcha (pim-peach-cha) is a Thai and British youth climate activist and environmental science student at King’s College London. Her activism has consisted of creating bridges between generations, communities, professions, and the environment to mobilise for climate action through systems change thinking. As well as freelance she also volunteers and works with organisations such as Force of Nature and UK Youth Climate Coalition

Tala is a Palestinian yoga instructor passionate about decolonizing the yoga industry and supporting activist communities. She first joined The Resilience Project as a Circle attendee in 2021, drawn to our vision of youth-led governance and resilience-centred climate justice. Since then, Tala has co-hosted their own Resilience Circle and worked with us as a Youth Programmes Officer.

Alongside their work with The Resilience Project, Tala has also held formal decision-making power as an elected Chair of Queen Mary University’s sustainability board. Currently, she is researching eco-anxiety and community resilience as part of their post-graduate studies in psychology, and is also an integrative psychotherapist-in-training. These experiences have shaped their commitment to translating care into operational practice and ensuring that governance remains grounded in shared values.