Once an outsider, environmentalist Manvi Bhalla is now at the center of a movement

Manvi Bhalla, a Canadian environmental youth advocate, is a force to reckon with when it comes to bringing awareness and accountability to the climate crisis. At only 23 years old, she has made it onto Corporate Knights magazine’s 2020 class of its Top 30 Under 30 sustainability leaders in Canada, and was also named one of the Top 25 Environmentalists Under 25 by environmental advocacy group The Starfish Canada the same year.

“One of my big worries is that the people currently in the positions of power do not represent the people who will be most impacted by climate change,” says Bhalla.

The activist is most passionate about using her voice to represent underserved communities and takes an intersectional approach to address the inequities in health and the environment. Being a woman of color who has been diagnosed with ADHD in adulthood, she hopes that by sharing her own identities, she will be able to best represent others like herself.