Find an environmental leader or activist that shares at least one thing in common with youthat you self-identify as important to who you are

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Assignment 1

Start by watching this video of Xiuhtezcatl Tonatiuh to prepare you for this assignment http://www.earthguardians.org (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. (Who is he? What does he do? What does he stand for?) I chose Xiuhtezcatl because we share being First Nation with one another (albeit, I am half First Nation and half European).

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Find an environmental leader or activist that shares at least one thing in common with youthat you self-identify as important to who you are. It does not need to be ethnicity. It can be anything that you self-identify with that is important to how you define yourself. Identity is pretty important when we think about the way people communicate and interact. For more on identity, check out http://criticalmediaproject.org/why-identity-matters/ (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

Give a brief bio of what they do and why you connect with them as a person and their mission AND why you chose them/connect with them. Your original entry should be a minimum of 250 words. Then reply to two different students posts that you connect with by reading their post and comment how and why you connect to what they wrote. Only one environmental leader/activist per person… i.e. you must choose someone different than a person that has already been discussed.