Lil Milagro Henriquez (she/her), M.A., was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana and has family who survived Hurricane Katrina—one of the nation’s most infamous climate-change-related disasters. She is a 20-year veteran of social and environmental justice activism. In 2017, she founded Mycelium Youth Network, an organization dedicated to preparing and empowering frontline youth for climate change. Mycelium has been named as one of the only organizations actively preparing young people for climate change in the United States.
Founder and Executive Director
Mycelium Youth Network
Sessions covered by this speaker
Growing Seeds of Climate Resilience
Themes covered by Lil
About this Speaker
Lil Milagro Henriquez (she/her), M.A., was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana and has family who survived Hurricane Katrina—one of the nation’s most infamous climate-change-related disasters. She is a 20-year veteran of social and environmental justice activism. In 2014, she won the Jonathan Daniels Memorial Fellowship for Social Justice award. In 2017, she founded Mycelium Youth Network, an organization dedicated to preparing and empowering frontline youth for climate change. In 2020, she received the Women’s Earth Alliance fellowship and in 2021, the Partners Advancing Climate Equity fellowship. She was recently recognized as one of the top 16 Eco-Warriors of 2021 by Marin Magazine.
Mycelium Youth Network has been named as one of the only organizations actively preparing young people for climate change in the United States.
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