Somalis abroad in public life
Isra Hirsi
Isra Hirsi (born 22 February 2003) is an American climate activist of Somali descent. In January 2019 she co-founded the US Youth Climate Strike and served as its co-executive director. She was born in Minneapolis and is the daughter of Congresswoman Ilhan Omar.
Isra HirsiIsra Ahmed Hirsi
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- 2003-02-22 to today
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- Somalis abroad in public life
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- Who holds power, 2012 to now
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Who is she?
Isra Hirsi is an American environmental activist who co-founded and co-led the US Youth Climate Strike (Wikipedia, Isra Hirsi). She was born on 22 February 2003 in Minneapolis to Ilhan Omar, the Somali-American member of Congress, and Ahmed Abdisalan Hirsi (same source). See Ilhan Omar and Somalis in Minneapolis–St Paul.
Climate activism
She joined her high school's environmental club in her first year at Minneapolis South High School (Wikipedia). In January 2019 she co-founded the US Youth Climate Strike, the American arm of the global youth climate strike movement, and helped organise hundreds of student strikes on 15 March and 3 May 2019 (same source). She won a Brower Youth Award in 2019, and was named on Fortune's 40 Under 40 in government and politics in 2020 (same source).
Barnard College
She began studying at Barnard College, Columbia University, in 2021 (Wikipedia). On 18 April 2024 she was suspended for taking part in the Gaza solidarity encampment at Columbia, and was arrested that day by New York police with other student protesters and released the same evening (same source).
In short
A Minneapolis-born climate organiser who co-founded the US Youth Climate Strike at 15.
Sources
- Wikipedia, Isra Hirsi · en.wikipedia.org
Isra HirsiIsra Ahmed Hirsi
- Lived
- 2003-02-22 to today
- Known as one of
- Somalis abroad in public life
- Era
- Who holds power, 2012 to now
- Sources
- 1 sources
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