Triple threat Xiuhtezcatl Martinez is an activist, hip hop artist, and author of indigenous Mexican descent. At the age of six, he began his activism by speaking out at the Rio+20 United Nations Summit in Rio de Janeiro, and now has been able to address New York City's General Assembly at the United Nations.
At just 19 years old, he's the youth director of Earth Guardians, a worldwide conservation organization founded by his mother Tamara Roske in 1992. The environmental activist is a profound leader in the climate change movement, filing two lawsuits in the name of it — the first time in 2015 when the Obama administration contributed to climate change by causing fossil fuel production and greenhouse gas emissions, and the second time in 2018 when he became the lead plaintiff in the Martinez v. Colorado Oil Conservation case where he went against the government of Washington.
Bold in his pursuit for climate resolve, Xiuhtezcatl took his activism a creative step further by utilizing hip hop music to highlight environmental injustices in Colorado, the state of his birth.
