Isra Hirsi

Hirsi grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota and is the daughter of the U.S. Congresswoman Ilhan Omar[2][3][4] and Ahmed Abdisalan Hirsi. At the age of 12, she was one of the participants protesting for justice for Jamar Clark at the Mall of America.[4] Hirsi attends Minneapolis South High School in Minneapolis.[5] She became involved in climate activism after joining her high school's environmental club in her freshman year.[4][6]

Hirsi has coordinated the organization of hundreds of student-led strikes across the United States on March 15 and May 3, 2019.[3] She co-founded the U.S. Youth Climate Strike,[7] the American arm of a global youth climate change movement, in January 2019.[8][9][10] She acts as the co-executive director of this group.[4][11] In 2019, she won a Brower Youth Award.[12] That same year, Hirsi received the Voice of the Future Award.[6] In 2020, Hirsi was placed on BET's "Future 40" list, which is a list of “40 of the most inspiring and innovative vanguards who are redefining what it means to be unapologetically young, gifted & black”.[13] Hirsi gave her first TEDx talk entitled "Angry Black Girl" on February 22, 2020.[14] She drew distinction between herself and mainstream liberalism, generally expressing left-wing viewpoints.[15]

• Fernands, Maddy; Hirsi, Isra; Coleman, Haven; Villaseñor, Alexandria (March 7, 2019). "Adults won't take climate change seriously. So we, the youth, are forced to strike". Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
• Hirsi, Isra (March 25, 2019). "The climate movement needs more people like me". Grist.