I can’t believe I’m actually saying it. After 7 years of building and leading Sunrise, and over a decade in the youth climate movement, I will be transitioning from my role as Executive Director of @sunrisemvmt in Fall 2023.

Thanks @POTUS for hearing our generation's voices and following through on the commitment you made during the Taskforce to build a Climate Corps. It's remarkable to see a program you fought for come to life before your eyes. Let's get to work and build the future!.

RT @sunrisemvmt:

The WH just announced a program to employ tens of thousands of youth with a pathway to lifelong careers doing the critical work of stopping climate change. We fought for these demands for years. Now the priorities of young people are beginning to become reality. Exciting day!.

And finally, thank you to every young person who believed in a better day, who took risks, made mistakes, & poured your hearts into fighting for a more stable, just, free present & future. Your courage changed the world and will change it again sure as the sun rises each morning.

It’s been the honor of a lifetime to serve alongside all of you. Thank you for any role you played, large or small to support the fight for climate justice. Thank you for the ways you’ve championed us and challenged us to grow and improve. I am so grateful.

I’m so excited for what these young people will achieve over the months and years to come. While I’ll be stepping out of my ED duties, I’ll be changing my role to support our team in other ways - more on that later!.

🤝 Create communities of belonging and invest more deeply in our members, especially those who are BIPOC and working class, through a new membership democracy structure and constituency organizing programs specifically for Black and Latine youth.

🏫 Help young people realize their own power by winning concrete victories in their schools & towns – think free public transit, municipalized power, city-wide gas bans, electrified school bus fleets – by leveraging hundreds of billions of federal dollars our movement helped win.

Here’s just a taste of what they’re planning:. 💪 Transform Sunrise to a powerful vehicle for thousands of trained, committed, and diverse leaders and organizers that will ramp up the urgency on ending the fossil fuel era.

They have navigated the turbulent terrain of a global pandemic, engaged in honest conversations about race and class that build our power, redesigned our strategy for a new political moment, and emerged prepared to take another swing at fighting for a livable future.

I always planned to stay in Sunrise until I could pass the torch to a future generation of youth leaders to lead the next phase of our work. I feel confident in saying that that time has come. The intelligence, passion, and commitment I see in the next Sunrisers are exceptional.

I’m so proud of the ways our organization has shaped the climate movement and, even, changed our world. And still, after ten years of sprinting alongside many other young people, everything inside of me is calling for rest and the time to learn and dream again.

2 years later, the climate mvmt won the largest national climate bill in world history – which, while flawed & insufficient, was the first time the fed govt had acted on climate. Now, we need to ensure these bills are just the starting point of the decade of the #GreenNewDeal.

We fought to keep climate at the center of American politics through sit-ins, office visits, and the media. We delivered a mandate to the Dem establishment that, to get the votes of our generation, they had to deliver on a climate plan in line with what science & justice demand.

I remember demonstrating in @SpeakerPelosi’s office, how dozens of youth were arrested in the halls of Congress with signs reading “Dems, what’s your plan?” and reporters calling from around the country wondering what “the Green New Deal” was.

What we’ve accomplished over the last few years is the stuff of dreams and magic for me. Six years ago, my friends and I launched Sunrise with a tenacious vision - make federal climate action rooted in racial & economic justice a priority in American politics for the first time.

Big love to @MauriceWFP who just dropped this powerful essay for anyone wanting to build movements that are joyful & relentless about winning. He digs into the causes for the internal problems our orgs face AND offers specific solutions. So much resonated with me. Check it out!.

RT @sunrisemvmt: BREAKING: @SummerForPA wins in #PA12! She’s on her way to becoming the first Black woman ever elected to Congress from Pen….