Highly respected and recognized in the field of environmentalism for her expertise, leadership, diplomacy and commitment, as well as her organizational skills, Amelia C. Clarke has long been fighting to help our planet breathe more easily. For a dozen years now, this doctorate student in management at McGill University has been representing Canadian Environmental Non-Government Organizations (ENGOs) at a number of international meetings. For many years Amelia was a member of the Canadian Environmental Network Youth Caucus where, among other things, she coordinated the activities of the Les Amis des monts Noël group which worked towards protecting the forests on Mount Noël in New Brunswick. She then went on to found Sierra Club of Canada’s Sierra Youth Coalition (SYC). As the national coordinator of SYC, she set up Sustainable Campuses, a project aimed at making campuses more environment-friendly that has now been established in 75% of Canadian universities. Amelia is currently the president of the Sierra Club of Canada, which has 30,000 members, and believes that sustainable development should be at the heart of all social, ecological and economical issues throughout the world. In fact, the young woman adamantly insists on using every platform available in order to convince different governments to adhere to this ideology.