Luiza Miranda de Queiroz Salek

Luiza is a young activist and researcher in the field of climate justice and the revival of ancestral Indigenous pedagogies. A full-scholarship graduate from UBC, she now works with community-based Indigenous organizations that lead participatory action research processes, focusing on food sovereignty and critical education rooted in their own territories, knowledge systems, and worldviews. Through art, music, and creative activism, Luiza seeks to nurture spaces for collective learning and forms of leadership that honor the plurality of climate narratives, knowledges, and existences. Inspired by LALA’s mission of solidarity between the Global South and North, she arrives from Turtle Island to join and learn from Brazilian youth who also dream of more just, vibrant, and interconnected worlds.