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Daphne Frias 

Climate Justice Organizer 

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Daphne Frias (she/her) works to highlight the diversity of her community. Daphne has cerebral palsy and uses a wheelchair to ambulate. She is fiercely proud to be a loud champion for disabled people. Active in the fight against gun violence and for voting rights, Daphne has been fighting the climate crisis as well. Her work deconstructs the silos between disability and the climate crisis with a public health approach. She was featured as a key panelist at the New York Times Climate Hub in a conversation moderated by Emma Watson. Most recently, she was appointed to the Natural History Museum’s Generation Hope advisory board, where she has helped to highlight the voices of young activists across the museum’s content. Daphne recently served as a head accessibility consultant for The March to End Fossil Fuels in New York, which gathered over 75,000 people. She has no intention of backing down until the health of our earth is secure. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, Forbes, Teen Vogue, NPR, Vice, and Elle, among many others. 
Daphne Frias