MEI-LING PATTERSON

Mei-Ling started volunteering at Shake Up The Establishment in January 2021 and was recently promoted to the role of Chief Communications Officer (CCO). Motivated by her passion for environmental and climate justice she is also a member of the Youth Advisory Council at The Jane Goodall Institute of Canada. She is grateful for the opportunity to be a part of a movement towards ensuring meaningful youth engagement in climate activism. Mei-Ling is also a MASc student in the Environmental Applied Science and Management program at Toronto Metropolitan University and is a two-year recipient of the Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Migration and Integration scholarship. Her master’s thesis is focused on the experiences, inclusion, and integration of racialized newcomers and immigrants into Canada’s rapidly expanding environmental sustainability sector.