“We’re stressing the moral and justice sides of climate change. “We’re marching to say that we need to live as if the future matters,” says Sanders-Reed. The iMatter March is the brainchild of Alec Loorz, a guru among young climate change activists who is also 16 and who started the nonprofit Kids vs Global Warming in Oak View, Calif., when he was 12. So far rallies are planned for cities throughout the U.S. As an organizer for the iMatter March, she is responsible for helping create energy around a global event – to be held May 8 – that seeks to get one million youths to march about climate change. Sanders-Reed, a 16-year-old junior at Albuquerque Academy in Albuquerque, N.M., is at the forefront of one of the largest climate change youth movements to ever hit the teen environmental activism scene. I want to hear what the students think about the environment,” says Sanders-Reed. “I’m going to Earth Day fairs at elementary schools. HCMG 001: Introduction to Health EconomicsĪkilah Sanders-Reed is spending her Earth Day influencing young recruits.STAT 001: Introduction to Statistics and Data Science.FNCE 002: Essentials of Personal Finance.FNCE 001: Introduction to Financial Markets and the Global Economy.Management & Technology Summer Institute.