BIPOC2COP Training Manager

Tina Yeonju Oh

Tina Yeonju Oh is a Korean immigrant-settler that grew up in so-called Alberta, Canada, where it took her family over 13 years to gain permanent residency status. Tina is a labour organizer based in Kjipuktuk, and she is also involved in the struggle for migrant justice with No One is Illegal - Halifax/Kjipuktuk.

She is the Training Manager of the Muskrat Collective’s BIPOC2COP project at the UN climate negotiations in Glasgow. The Collective aims to support BIPOC youth in their assertions for sovereign futures and in resisting global imperial elites.

Tina was featured by CBC as “13 Canadian environmentalists and innovators changing Earth for the better”. She was named Canada’s Top 25 Environmentalists Under 25 by Starfish Canada and was a recipient of the a2018 David Brower Awards in California for her fossil-fuel divestment activism.