Xiye Bastida is an 18 year-old climate justice activist. She is an organiser with Fridays For Future and the co-founder of Re-Earth Initiative, an international youth led organisation that focuses on highlighting the intersectionality of the climate crisis. She was born in Mexico and was raised as part of the Otomi-Toltec Indigenous community. She is the recipient of the UN Spirit award for the year 2018 and currently attends the University of Pennsylvania.