The Power of Youth

Overview Speakers

From the 2018 March for Our Lives fighting for gun control in the US to the Global Climate Strike in 2019, young people are mobilizing and increasingly influencing today’s most pressing political and environmental issues. How can these movements transform their will for change into action?

Simultaneous interpretation in English and German

This is a livestreamed session.

Berengere Fouqueray

Student, International School of Zug and Lucerne

Autumn Peltier

Chief Water Commissioner of the Anishinabek Nation

Naomi Wadler

Micah White

Co-Creator, Occupy Wall Street

Maxime Crettex

Swiss Youth Delegate to the United Nations, Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) of Switzerland

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