{"id":2931,"date":"2025-05-01T15:30:19","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T19:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatetoolkit.org\/youth\/?p=2931"},"modified":"2025-05-01T15:31:35","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T19:31:35","slug":"youth-spotlight-creating-opportunities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatetoolkit.org\/youth\/youth-spotlight-creating-opportunities\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth Spotlight: Creating Opportunities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Join Anthony Zurlo from The Wild Center&#8217;s ClimaTeens fellowship and Mathilda Turich and Marley McFarland from Phipps Conservatory&#8217;s\u00a0Youth\u00a0Climate Advocacy Committee (YCAC) for the first installment of the\u00a0Youth\u00a0Spotlight\u00a0series. A product of the Climate Toolkit\u00a0Youth\u00a0Network, our\u00a0Youth\u00a0Spotlight\u00a0series aims to give remarkable young people the stage to share their work and inspire other\u00a0youth\u00a0in climate action.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This\u00a0Youth\u00a0Spotlight centers around creating an action or opportunity where there is not one currently. Anthony discusses his fellowship at The Wild Center and the incredible work that he has done forming a green team called the North Country Climate Club. Marley and Mathilda discuss their work in the Phipps YCAC and their own personal journeys of climate action.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please share this series with young people in your networks and encourage them to attend a future session! We hope to see them featured on a\u00a0Youth\u00a0Spotlight\u00a0one day!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>If you have young people who are taking great strides in climate action, please contact us to have them featured on a future&nbsp;Youth&nbsp;Spotlight. With further questions about the&nbsp;Youth&nbsp;Spotlight&nbsp;series or the Climate Toolkit&nbsp;Youth&nbsp;Network, please email us at&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"mailto:CTYN@phipps.conservatory.org\">CTYN@phipps.conservatory.org<\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Youth Spotlight Series 1: Anthony Zurlo, Mathilda Turich and Marley McFarland\" width=\"605\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NyV4SYh0iwk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join Anthony Zurlo from The Wild Center&#8217;s ClimaTeens fellowship and Mathilda Turich and Marley McFarland from Phipps Conservatory&#8217;s\u00a0Youth\u00a0Climate Advocacy Committee (YCAC) for the first installment of the\u00a0Youth\u00a0Spotlight\u00a0series. A product of the Climate Toolkit\u00a0Youth\u00a0Network, our\u00a0Youth\u00a0Spotlight\u00a0series aims to give remarkable young people &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/climatetoolkit.org\/youth\/youth-spotlight-creating-opportunities\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Youth Spotlight: Creating Opportunities<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2932,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[29,31,26,22,27,28,33,24,23,21,19,20,25,18,30],"class_list":["post-2931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-youth-spotlight","tag-action","tag-anthony","tag-climateens","tag-conservatory","tag-fellowship","tag-green-team","tag-marley","tag-opportunities","tag-opportunity","tag-phipps","tag-spotlight","tag-the-wild-center","tag-ycac","tag-youth","tag-youth-climate-advocacy-committee"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatetoolkit.org\/youth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatetoolkit.org\/youth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatetoolkit.org\/youth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatetoolkit.org\/youth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatetoolkit.org\/youth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/climatetoolkit.org\/youth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2933,"href":"https:\/\/climatetoolkit.org\/youth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2931\/revisions\/2933"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatetoolkit.org\/youth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatetoolkit.org\/youth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatetoolkit.org\/youth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatetoolkit.org\/youth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}