Youth Director: Earth Guardians [show_more more=”Read Bio” less=”close” align=center color=”#3f7e45″]

Marlow Baines is an 18-year-old from Boulder, Colorado and is the Youth Director of Earth Guardians. Born in Seattle, WA and raised in the mountains of Evergreen, CO she has an intrinsic and deep love and appreciation for wild, open spaces and places.

Working closely with Xiuhtezcatl Martinez and Tamara Roske, Marlow has been an integral member of the Earth Guardians National Council, Rising Youth for a Sustainable Earth (RYSE), and is honored to serve as Youth Director alongside Xiuhtezcatl. She previously served as Earth Guardians Global Crew Director, a role in which she actively connected with youth leaders across the globe about their initiatives and resource needs, while providing educational materials and support.

Marlow’s insatiable desire to learn, to deeply understand cultural issues, and to elevate the voices of her peers gives her the energy and the motivation required to balance school work with the work she does organizing at the local, state, national and international levels.

As youth representative for Earth Guardians, she has worked tirelessly to push back the frack in Colorado, attending countless Boulder City Council and Boulder County Commissioner meetings and state Senate Committee meetings, culminating in the successful passage of Colorado Senate Bill 181, which fundamentally changed the charter of the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission charter from one of “fostering the responsible development of Colorado’s oil and gas natural resources” to placing a priority on the health and safety of Colorado citizens, wildlife, and the environment through regulation and tighter local control, considered one of the most progressive in the nation.

Marlow has participated on youth organizing committees for Alliance for Climate Education, International Indigenous Youth Council, US Youth Climate Strikes, Fridays for Future, and Future Coalition and has collaborated with Zero Hour, Extinction Rebellion, 350.org, Our Children’s Trust, Colorado Rising, and others.

The Climate Strikes in late 2019 set records for youth turnout. Marlow was lead organizer for the Colorado Climate Strikes and emcee for the strike event on November 11th, 2019 where she was honored to introduce Greta Thunberg to an audience of over 15,000 primarily youth strikers. The event centered indigenous and frontline community youth sharing their experience and their solutions to the climate crisis.

Marlow has keynoted, spoken on panels, and helped plan youth programming at conferences across the United States including 1% for the Planet (Los Angeles, CA), Bioneers (San Rafael, CA), Earth’s Call and Earth X (Aspen, CO), Planet Home (San Francisco, CA), VERGE 2019 (Oakland, CA), and many others. Marlow has presented alongside Bernie Sanders and met with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi as one of the diverse coalition of youth demanding climate action from Congress. As part of the effort to bring awareness to the Youth Climate Strikes, Marlow was recently featured alongside 18 youth climate activists in the Facing Extinction campaign by Patagonia.

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