SKW’AKW’AS (SUNSHINE) DUNSTAN-MOORE

GENERAL OFFICER, BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Skw’akw’as/Sunshine Lillian (She/Her) is a Nlakapamux and Yakama youth from Tlekemstin, also known as Lytton in British Columbia. Skw’akw’as has been a climate advocate and activist since high school. She studied Media & Communications at university and is passionate about how the media discusses the climate crisis, explicitly moving away from the unnecessary doomism in climate communication. Skw’akw’as is a Community Climate Justice Coordinator with VIDEA for her community Tlekemstin. A member of the Youth Advisory Group with the Canadian Commission of UNESCO, member and co-chair of the Environment and Climate Change Youth Council. 

Skw’akw’as strives to inspire BIPOC youth to take up space within colonial structures and to make the folxs in power just as uncomfortable as they make us. Continue to call for the decolonization of how we write, teach, and think about policy. To hold and create safe spaces for youth who are having big climate feelings and normalize crying within climate spaces. Skw’akw’as loves Taylor Swift and frequently listens to ‘You’re on your own kid’ in colonial spaces.