Julieta Martínez
Climate Change and Gender Activist. Founder of Tremendas, Chile
Julieta is an 18-year-old student, founder of the Tremendas global action platform, a group that promotes the empowerment of girls, adolescents and young people, inviting them to put their skills and talents at the service of the community to generate social impact.
Julieta founded Tremendas at the age of 15 and that same year she was recognized as a Young Agent of Change by the Ashoka Foundation.
In 2019 she was a finalist for the Inspiring Girls International World Cup in London.
In addition, in 2019 she was invited to participate in COP 25 in Madrid, being selected by the United Nations as one of the 4 young Speakers of the High Level Event on Action for Climate Empowerment.
In January 2020, she participated in the Summit of Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, as part of the UN Women Chile delegation.
In February 2020, she was selected to participate in the Climate Reality Leadership Global Training program, led by Al Gore, from which she graduated in September of the same year.
In November 2020, she was selected as a member of the select group of global ambassadors of the Youth Task Force Beijing +25 of UN Women. She is the only Latin American teenager and the youngest of the group worldwide.
In 2020 she co-founded the international climate activism network "Latinas for Climate".
In 2021 she was recognized by the World Economic Forum (Chile) as Girl Leader of the Future.
Currently, Julieta is an ambassador for "Concausa", an initiative of Unicef and América Solidaria; Ashoka and WWF. In addition, she is a member of the adolescent council of “My voice counts”, a joint initiative of América Solidaria, Unicef, the Ombudsman for Children and the Network of Universities for Children.
She has been invited to speak at renowned events, such as the Women Economic Forum Latin America (Mexico 2020); Future Summit (Poland 2020); Generation Equality Forum of UN Women (Mexico 2021); Women International Day of UN Women and the European Union (Geneva 2021); Fourth Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on sustainable development; Ecosoc (New York 2021) and Nesi Global Forum (Málaga, Spain).
In July 2021, Julieta participated in the Generation Equality Forum, held in Paris. At the meeting, the young activist shared the stage with figures such as the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, Nadia Murad; businesswoman Melinda Gates; the US vice president, Kamala Harris; the French ambassador for women's rights, Delphine O; and former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
In September 2021, she is selected as one of the 11 world fellows of Girl Rising, which is an international organization that defends the school education of girls. Together with Girl Rising, Julieta will direct her first documentary focused on girls as a climate solution.
At the end of September 2021, she was a Chilean delegate at Youth4Climate in Milan, Italy. For this instance, it was selected by the United Nations, the World Bank and the Italian government.
In November 2021, she participated in Cop 26 in Glasgow as a panelist and speaker, sharing the stage with the First Minister of Scotland and Christiana Figueres, former executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
In February 2022, she was named an honorary member for Latin America of the international organization Earthday.