How Isra Hirsi is creating a better future for the world

Who is Isra Hirsi?

Isra is co-founder and co-executive of the US Youth Climate Strike which is an organization that leads climate control strikes for students. Isra fights for climate control justice and she was solely inspired to start fighting from the Flint water crisis.

Isra is a black, Muslim woman who emphasizes intersectionality and how it connects with her movement for climate control justice. Being the daughter of a Somali-American refugee, she feels it’s her mission to create more room for Muslim and black youth to be the faces of climate control justice – and she’s been doing a great job at getting what she believes is right!

What does she do?

Not only does Isra focus on climate change and making a better future for the world, but she also fights to encourage people to step up and take action, especially those who are Muslim or black. She believes race shouldn’t be any sort of factor when it comes to leading a movement, and her goal is to show others that they too can do what she’s doing – the color of your skin doesn’t matter, it’s what you stand for that matters.

Isra believes that “the climate crisis is such a massive issue that everything is impacted by it, everything is intertwined in some way,” she encourages people to see the fault in everything and to learn how everything is connected. Climate control is a huge issue in this world, and Isra is using her social media platforms to get more people on board with her movement everyday.

Why did she start this movement?

As we stated earlier, Isra became concerned with the state of the future of the planet when the Flint water crisis happened, and ever since then, she’s done everything she can to help show the world what’s happening to our climate. 

Isra’s main goal with this movement was to do everything she could to help save our planet, as well as giving people of color the courage they need to lead a movement like this. Climate control isn’t the only issue our planet is facing, and we shouldn’t ignore those other issues. Rather, we should be encouraging anyone, anywhere to step up, use their voice and stand up for what they believe in.

Sources used for reference, but all wording is my own.

https://www.earthday.org/19-youth-climate-activists-you-should-follow-on-social-media/

https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/10/11/20904791/young-climate-activists-of-color