 Hi, my name is Tanu Yakupiti-Age and I work at 350.org. I am a Sri Lankan immigrant to the US. I work in the climate justice movement because my communities are impacted by the climate crisis. I'm from an island in South Asia that will face the impacts of rising sea levels over the next many decades. My family came here to the United States from the Philippines in the 70s to give me a better life. The Philippines has seen firsthand the direct impacts of climate destruction, one of the most famous examples being Typhoon Haiyan. As a Filipino-American, I feel a deep responsibility to my family members who live in the Philippines who have experienced and are currently experiencing the impacts of climate change every week and every year. There are typhoons, there are floods, there are mudslides. The United States is largely responsible for these climate disasters. We are one of the biggest culprits of causing climate change through our emissions. And not only that, we have a harmful history and legacy of colonization on the Philippines and on the global south. I'm invested in fighting for climate justice because the climate crisis doesn't pick and choose who it affects. It is inevitably going to affect all of us and impact us in ways that we can't even foresee and imagine. But it's already impacting people who are on the front lines currently. And a lot of those folks are AAPI folks who are living on islands, who are living in communities where they don't have access to clean and safe drinking water or are at threat because of rising sea levels. So we're going to be seeing mass migrations of people over the next many decades and it's already starting, whether it's from parts of India, from Bangladesh, from the Maldives. And so for me, it's really important that we talk about the climate crisis and we talk about it in connection to our communities in South Asia because we're impacted and we are also suffering from the fact that the governments in our countries are mainly right-wing and nationalist governments and so we really have to be pushing for real action on the climate crisis and for real justice for our communities. I feel as an Asian American, I have a unique role to play in ending our country's harmful legacy on the Global South. I think it's a responsibility that I take on in my work but also on a personal level to see how I can reduce my impact in the climate crisis and also urge people within my community, particularly my AAPI community, to be the same thing. We need to join together and be talking about the real impact of this crisis and how we have a role in it.