Climate Justice Resources Launch: Migrant Youth Transforming Advocacy and Education

Join us for the public launch of a suite of climate justice resources co-created with migrant young people in so-called Australia.  

Led by Dr Laura Rodriguez Castro and co-organised with Dr Liberty de Rivera (Southern Cross University), this project emerged from a shared commitment to amplifying the voices, experiences, knowledges and agendas of first- and second-generation migrant young people from non-Western and Global South backgrounds in climate advocacy and education. 

Between 2025-2026, 18 young people (18-29 years old) from diverse racial, cultural, and ethnic backgrounds joined us in the process of forging this space. From these encounters, and within quiet pauses, we listened deeply with the intention to co-create and amplify climate and social justice agendas and resources for education and advocacy. 

At this event, we will launch a website hosting: 

• A Zine for Climate Advocacy 

• An Education Statement with learning principles and aligned with the ACARA Secondary HASS Curriculum (Year7-10) 

• Audiovisual resources sharing the project artworks, stories and insights 

These resources are designed to support educators, activists, advocacy spaces and communities to meaningfully engage with migrant and Global South knowledges in climate justice education and advocacy.  

We envision these resources as a seed for collective action – for nurturing conversations, organising, and transformative climate justice in advocacy, and education spaces. 

This launch event is supported by the SEAE Research Centre, Southern Cross University, and the Australian Association for Environmental Education.  

This project was funded by the Faculty of Education, Southern Cross University, and is based at the Sustainability, Environment and the Arts in Education (SEAE) Research Centre (Ethics Approval: 2025/022). We gratefully acknowledge the mentorship of Professor Amy Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles and Professor Alexandra Lasczik.