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The Climate Consensus @climateconsensus.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

For April’s Speaker Series, we have Feleecia Guillen speaking on Building Power for Campus Climate Action at the University of New Mexico. This will take place on Zoom on Thursday, April 3rd at 2 pm ET / 1 pm CT / 12 pm MT. Register here: osu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

The Climate Consensus

Speaker: Feleecia Guillen
Director of Outreach & Communication
Director of Environmental Affairs

Building Power for Campus Climate Action: Youth-Led Organizing, Divestment,
Advocacy & Student Leadership at the University of New Mexico

The climate crisis is deeply connected to environmental and social justice, particularly in New Mexico, where frontline
communities face the severe impacts of fossil fuel
extraction, water contamination, and corporate exploitation.
UNM Leaders for Environmental Action and Foresight (LEAF) is organizing to ensure that the University of New Mexico takes bold and urgent steps toward sustainability and justice, recognizing that universities have a responsibility to lead in climate action. Given that New Mexico's youth are leading this movement-challenging decision-makers, advocating for a just transition away from fossil fuels, and resisting false solutions that harm their communities-students at UNM are mobilizing to ensure the university is not complicit in climate destruction but instead serves as a model for sustainability and climate leadership. This talk will highlight how student-led organizing is driving climate action at UNM and its connection to the broader environmental justice movement
in New Mexico. UNM LEAF is pushing the university to declare a climate emergency, commit to a waste-free and carbon-free campus, divest from fossil fuels, and invest in just and sustainable education. Through advocacy, coalition-building, and strategic outreach, students are demanding real institutional change. This presentation will share key organizing strategies, challenges, and successes, providing insight into how student activism can drive systemic change and help shape a just and livable future in New Mexico.

Thursday, April 3rd
2:00 PM ET / 1:00 PM CT / 12:00 PM MT on ZOOM

Register here: https://osu.zoom.us/meeting/register/iJRBTK3-Q4i-PDhn-kbNMQ#/registration

The Climate Consensus

Speaker: Feleecia Guillen
Director of Outreach & Communication
Director of Environmental Affairs

Feleecia Guillen is a senior at UNM, majoring in Business and Spanish with minors in Sustainability Studies and Psychology. Raised in rural NM, where water accessibility issues profoundly shaped her perspective, she developed
a deep connection to both her environment and community. As a proud Chicana and Nuevomexicana, her Indigenous roots deeply connect her to Mother Nature, grounding and guiding her work. Feleecia is actively involved in various organizing efforts across New Mexico, tackling environmental injustices from uranium mining to the proposed Strategic Water Supply. As the Director of Outreach & Communication for UNM Leaders for Environmental Action and Foresight (UNM LEAF), the Director of Environmental Affairs for Associated Students at the University of New Mexico (ASUNM), the New Mexico
Youth Climate Summit Project
Coordinator for Talking Talons, and a Steering Committee Member for Youth
United for Climate Crisis Action
(YUCCA), Feleecia is a driving force behind advocating for real and just climate solutions. She also collaborates with organizations like Food & Water Watch and No False Solutions, working to amplify the voices of marginalized
communities and push for
environmental justice and collective
liberation.