Youth Delegate

Ta’Kaiya Blaney

Ta’Kaiya Blaney is a 20 year old Indigenous youth from the Tla’Amin First Nation and grew up along the shores of the Salish Sea in British Columbia, Canada. She has been featured in documentaries, spoken at United Nations conferences, environmental events, and classrooms across Canada and internationally.

Since the age of 10, Ta’Kaiya has been vocal about her passion for the protection of lands, waters, and climate and worked within movement spaces combatting extractive industries, climate change, and oil pipelines that threaten the present and future survival of her people. Ta’Kaiya seeks to address colonialism as the root of climate change and empower her people and our collective knowledge as solutions to the crisis.