For this week’s virtual climate strike held by Fridays for Future Bruce Grey Owen Sound, Youth Activist Aidan Randall will be interviewing Rachel Parent, founder of Kids Right to Know and Gen-Earth, to discuss the challenges and successes of youth activism. Local youth can submit questions for Rachel to [email protected]

Rachel Parent is an environment youth activist and founder of Kids Right to Know, a not-for-profit organization that educates youth about the connection between food and climate change while advocating for GMO labelling. A media veteran, she's given dozens of interviews including a debate with Kevin O’Leary on CBC. She's an international and two time TEDx speaker, the founder of Gen-Earth Events, an environmental film platform, and has started a monarch butterfly conservation program, raising and releasing up to 2000 monarchs to date.

You can watch the event live on YouTube, Facebook, or Twitter on Friday, July 3rd at 4:00 pm. Here is the link to the YouTube Livestream: https://youtu.be/7eZUc-_CBxc. You can visit the Kids Right to Know website at https://kidsrighttoknow.org/. You can follow Rachel on Twitter or Instagram @RachelsNews.

Aidan Randall is a 20 year old youth speaker and Fridays for Future activist from Grey Bruce, Ontario. Raised Vegan from birth by parents who are environmentalists, he is passionate about Climate Justice, GMO awareness, Animal Agriculture, and Social Justice. You can follow Aidan on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram @AidansAction.

For more information about Fridays for Future, email [email protected] or visit their Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/fridaysforfuture.bgos/

source: media release, Fridays for Future