Cedar Barg (they/them)

About Cedar

Cedar Barg (they/them) is the Youth Climate Program Manager at The Wild Center. They support the international Youth Climate Summit Network of over 160 summits in 9 countries that have used the Youth Climate Summit Toolkit & resources to start summits all over the world! Cedar hosts monthly Network meetings and travels to other summit sites with the climate team and regional high school climate leaders.

Cedar studied environmental science at Goshen College and holds a Masters degree in Experiential and Outdoor Education from Western Carolina University. For their Masters thesis study, Youth Got the Power: Building Youth-Adult Partnerships for Climate Action, Cedar worked with 3 high school students to design and implement a climate action project. Cedar is passionate about several climate topics including climate justice, climate fiction/music, and climate action planning. Three words to describe Cedar's role in the climate movement include: reader, bike organizer & singer/ songwriter. 

About Cedar’s Community Action Project (CAP)

For Cedar’s project, they will be working on connecting young people with their local governments to take climate action together. The Youth Climate Program is in the final stages of developing 2 youth guides related to this topic (one is New York State specific, the other is for youth in other states) which will be disseminated to adults and young people in NYS and beyond as a part of this project. They see this as an opportunity to build out a model for intergenerational civic engagement and climate action. Youth and local governments may seem like unlikely partners, but they have so much to offer each other in terms of capacity building, career exposure, inclusive community engagement, and generating unique ideas to increase local climate resilience.