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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 Varsini 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.

Varsini 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 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 young age of well I was 22 at the time there weren't any adults in the room and we had to step up and take action.

How did you begin to organize what would become Sunrise Movement? So it's you and a few friends I guess and you're all committed to climate activism.

I mean it was a number of us who were kind of getting activated in the Obama days right. So I was working on a fossil fuel divestment campaign at UMass Amherst where I went to school.

Others of us were working on the international climate negotiations or fighting against the Keystone XL pipeline or so on and so forth. And I think we realized that the sort of culmination of the Obama years that much had been one.

But at the same time the power of our movements were not keeping pace with the rising seas, the worsening storms.

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