youth leader

Erica Fernandez, 18, was born and raised in Michoacan, Mexico, until age ten. She has since been recognized as a remarkable young environmental activist in Oxnard, California. Initially motivated to fight air pollution because of her asthma, she helped mobilize her whole diverse community -- from Latino youth to the Sierra Club -- to defeat the placement of a liquefied natural gas facility just offshore, successfully resisting a multi-national, billion-dollar corporation.