Janelle Lapointe

Public Engagement & Mobilization Co-Lead; Future Ground Network Community & Youth Organizer 

Expertise: Indigenous rights, climate justice, intersectional environmentalism, Indigenous climate mitigation and adaptation, movement-building, community organizing 

Credentials: Council member, SevenGen Energy; Organizer, Common Horizon; Member, Indigenous climate adaptation working group; Contributor, CBC Vancouver The Early Edition climate panel; Cohort 1, Climate Justice Study Collective, Community Capacity Building certificate, Simon Fraser University; Climate change in smaller communities certificate, Simon Fraser University

Passions: Spending time in nature; reading and writing; somatic processing and radical rest.

The Canadian corporate elite have built their wealth by exploiting Indigenous lands and resources, creating deep-rooted systemic injustices that fuel both social inequality and environmental degradation. The path to true climate justice requires an intersectional and decolonial approach, recognizing that Indigenous sovereignty and the health of our planet are intrinsically linked. Climate justice will look like enacting the economies, laws, culture, language and governance structures of Indigenous Nations—systems that have allowed them to be the only people to survive sustainably on these lands.