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Layel Camargo is Yaqui and Mayo of the Sonoran Desert born on unceeded ancestral lands of the Kumayaay. As a transgender and gender non-conforming person threy’ve dedicated the last 15 years advancing climate justice through storytelling, cultural strategy, art making and leadership. Layel co-founded a 900 acre forest restoration project Shelterwood Collective. They founded ‘Climate Woke’ a storytelling climate justice platform. They served as an Impact Producer for the web series ‘The North Pole’ with Executive Producers Rosario Dawson and Movement Generation, likewise they produced and hosted the podcast ‘Did We Go Too Far’. Layel was named a Fixer on the Grist 2020 Fixers List, co- awarded a Humanitarian Award by the international association of sufism. Layel has done public speaking at the University of Montreal, UC Santa Cruz, U Penn, and many more! They graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz.