How I Built Resilience: Varshini Prakash of Sunrise Movement

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And thanks. Hey everyone and welcome to How I Built This Resilience Edition. On these episodes, as many of you know, we talk with entrepreneurs and change makers about how they're meeting today's challenges with new strategies and ideas. And today we're going to hear from Varshini Prakash, the co-founder and executive director of Sunrise Movement. It's an organization founded by young people to mobilize against climate change and to make the issue a top priority in the United States. Barcini launched Sunrise in 2017, along with just a handful of like minded activists, and it's since grown into one of the largest youth movements in the world. In the country.

We were just young people who were fed up with seeing politicians kicking the can down the road, sweeping what is the greatest. threat facing our generation under the rug and refusing to deal with the reality of the crisis at hand and realized, you know, at the the young age of well, I was twenty two at the time, um There weren't any adults in the room and we had to step up and take action. How did you begin to Organized.

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