Skw'akw'as (Sunshine) Dunstan-Moore

Skw’akw’as/Sunshine Lillian (She/Her) a Nlakapamux, Statlium, Yakima, and Irish youth from Tlekemstin, also known as Lytton, British Columbia. Skw’akw’as is the Indigenous Climate & Policy Advisor with VIDEA. Member and 22/23 co-chair of the Environment and Climate Change Youth Council. A member of the Youth Advisory Group with the Canadian Commission of UNESCO. Newly appointed Board Member for Youth Climate Lab, and recently started an Environmental Leadership Canada Parliamentary Internship for the Environment. 

Her focus and passions are in International Climate Policy, Climate Justice, and Indigenous Rights. Striving to inspire and support BIPOC youth to take up space within colonial structures Continue to call for the decolonization of how we write, teach, and think about policy. To hold and create safe spaces for youth who are having big climate feelings and normalize crying within these spaces. Skw’akw’as loves Taylor Swift and frequently listens to ‘You’re on your own kid’ in colonial spaces.