Anna Rose

Anna Rose is the founder of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition, uniting a diversity of youth organizations to mobilize a generation of young people in the struggle for climate justice and a clean energy future. Anna recently graduated from a combined Arts (Asian Studies)/ Law degree at the University of Sydney. Anna was National Environment Officer for the Australian National Union of Students in 2005 and is past National Convener of the Australian Student Environment Network. She is a former editor of the Sydney University student paper Honi Soit, member of the United Nations Pacific Youth Environment Network, and Sustainability Team Leader for Project Australia. In 2005 Anna was a youth representative to the Kyoto Protocol negotiations in Montreal and in 2007 was a youth delegate to the UN Secretary General's Meeting on Climate Change in New York. Anna holds a Global Youth Action Net Fellowship from the International Youth Foundation for 2007-2008. She is helping build the US youth climate movement and working to establish a global youth climate coalition.