#22 Xuân Mai Hoàng 🇻🇳 - Raising her voice and the voices of youth through climate journalism

🇻🇳 Mai is a climate journalist and youth advocate from Vietnam. She writes poetry about mosquitos, trains aspiring climate journalists and has coordinated the first-ever Special Report on Youth Climate Action in Vietnam with UNDP Viet Nam. 💪 She shares with us the start of her climate advocacy at 13 years old, her experience as the youngest Climate Tracker Journalism Fellow at the 24th UN Climate Change Conference (COP24) and how she’s been moving towards youth empowerment and engagement with the Youth4Climate network. We discuss how she trained herself to become a journalist, her challenges as a youth and how she reconnected with her youth identity, and all the small moments that made a difference in her life! This is the longest episode of Life Line so far, it’s around 2h10m, so enjoy and see you in a while! ❤️ TIMELINE: 4’ - Proud Saigonese writing poetry about mosquitos 14’ - Journaling, reading English literature and being the best at school 27’ - Raising her voice against the “2016 Vietnam marine life disaster” 45’ - Rising as a human-centred climate journalist 58’ - At 16, being the youngest Climate Tracker Fellow and covering COP24 72’ - Age is just a number 83’ - Accelerating youth climate action in Vietnam 90’ - Reconnecting with science at Harvard University 108’ - Being a proud Vietnamese youth climate advocate 🗒️ References: - Mai’s blog . -(Great) Article about Mai. -First draft of the Special Report on Youth Climate Action in Vietnam . -Connect with Mai on LinkedIn . 🎧 Where to listen? YouTube . Apple Podcasts . Spotify . Google Podcasts . All platforms . 🙏 To support Life Line, you can: Share this episode and speak about Life Line to your friends! ❤️ Subscribe on your favourite platform. Leave a 5-star review on the Apple Podcast app . Leave your email for the weekly newsletter . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.