Season 3- Episode 6: Jaime Margolin - Youth to Power.

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Tania and Peter talk to Jaime about her book Youth to Power and other ideas about weaving elder knowledge and youth knowledge.

Jaime Margolin is an internationally recognized leader on climate action. She is co-executive director and a co-founder of Zero Hour, an organization building a movement of youth for climate and environmental justice. She is the author of the book, Youth to Power; Your Voice and How to Use It.  She is an inspiration to countless Latine & BIPOC youth and adult leaders.

In 2017, at age 15, Margolin founded the youth climate action organization Zero Hour with Nadia Nazar,[6][7] Zanagee Artis, and other youth activists.[8] She served as the co-executive director of the organization until September 2020 when she stepped down. She was replaced by fellow founder and youth activist Madelaine Tew.[9] Margolin co-founded Zero Hour in reaction to the response she saw after Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico[10] and her personal experience during the 2017 Washington wildfires.[9]

She has garnered some notoriety as a plaintiff in the Aji P. v. Washington case, suing the state of Washington for their inaction against climate change on the basis of a stable climate being a human right.[10][11][clarification needed]

In September 2018, Margolin was part of a youth group that sued Governor Jay Inslee and the State of Washington over greenhouse-gas emissions in the state. The case was dismissed by a King County Superior Court judge, who ruled the case to be political one that must be resolved by the Governor and the legislature. It has since been appealed Washington Court of Appeals.[3]

In September 2019, she was asked to testify on a panel called "Voices Leading the Next Generation on the Global Climate Crisis" alongside Greta Thunberg for the United States House of Representatives.[3]

In 2021, Margolin started a Climate Justice Scholarship.[4]