The Youth Environmental Advocacy Fellowship is a program developed by Human Nature Projects focusing on the disparities in the health of Canadian Indigenous communities and how these disparities can be caused/exacerbated by environmental issues due to inadequate/lack of policy or governmental action. 

 

The fellowship will include four days of in-person programming in the month of August where students will learn about health and environmental issues of indigenous communities and have the opportunity to produce two deliverables: an article and a presentation to expert judges and community members. 

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Through this fellowship, participants will:

• Learn how to critique scientific research articles and present their findings to both scientific and lay audiences.

• Work in a group to improve soft skills such as public speaking, communication, teamwork, time management and problem solving.

• Think critically to propose a novel idea/solution to an ongoing environmental issue within a Canadian Indigenous community.

• Learn how to formally pitch a proposal to a panel of judges in multiple creative ways (ie: through report writing, presentation, poster).