Luisa Neubauer is a youth climate justice activist and lead organizer of the German "Fridays for Future" climate movement. For over five years now, Luisa and Fridays for Future have brought hundreds of thousands of people to the streets. In 2022 TIME Magazine included her among the "100Next" leaders. In "Neubauer vs. Germany" she and others won a landmark constitutional court ruling against the German government (then led by Angela Merkel) in 2021, forcing the government to improve its climate law. She and others are now suing the (new) German government again. She has published three best-selling books on the climate crisis. One of them is available in English: Beginning to End the Climate Crisis. A History of Our Future, published by Brandeis University Press in 2023. Her Ted Talks on climate action have been watched more than 4 million times. Luisa Neubauer is currently completing a Masters degree in Geography. She is the host of the award-winning Podcast "1,5 Degrees". A Visiting Research Scholar at the Center for German and European Studies at Brandeis University this fall, she normally lives in Berlin.
Sena Wazer is a lifelong environmental advocate and current master’s student at the Yale School of the Environment. Before starting her degree, Sena coordinated climate advocacy in the northeast U.S., supporting volunteers from Washington DC to Maine as they fought for climate action in their communities. Sena is originally from Connecticut and got her start in climate activism during the 3 years she spent directing Sunrise Movement Connecticut. During this time, she organized large rallies, strikes, lobby days, and other events; spoke with hundreds of students and community members about climate change; and worked to pass state climate legislation. Sena graduated summa cum laude in 2022 from the University of Connecticut.
