Serena Mendizábal shares an empowering message in this week’s Changemaker Chat. With a passion for community engagement and education, Serena is the Managing Director at Sacred Earth, supporting Indigenous communities’ unique needs with capacity building, training, and self-determination. Serena’s story realizes a future vision where the just transition blossoms beyond the energy sector, with community voices at the forefront of the climate transformation.

This week the Changemaker limelight belongs to Chloe D’Agostini, Head of Brand & Comms, who’s been putting Toronto Climate Week in the limelight since Day 1. As Founder and Strategic Director of Versalles Creative, Chloe shapes the identities and stories behind innovative brands and also helps them secure coverage in top publications such as WSJ, CNN, Forbes, The New York Times, BBC, among others.

This week, we shine the Changemaker spotlight on a TOCW team member who is usually behind a camera asking the questions. Oren Falkovitz is a corporatemarketer turned content producer and the Creative Director of Sustainable Storytelling. On a mission to make consequential work visible, Oren leads TOCW’s videography & storytelling.

For one month this spring, climate action is just a dinner reservation away! From May 15 to June 14, Toronto is hosting Sustainalicious, a city-wide celebration of climate-smart eating that brings together restaurants, chefs, home cooks, and climate-curious eaters for one of the tastiest months of the year.

For this week’s Changemaker Chat, we sat down for a rare interview with Tony Pringle, CEO and Co-founder of Quinn+Partners, to discuss Canada’s role in the shifting economic climate and the ways Canada is blazing a trail of leadership and innovation in sustainability and climate action.

This week, we hand the Changemaker microphone to the team behind the TOCW newsletter: Elizabeth Cockle, Newsletter Lead; Nile Choi, Newsletter & Social Media Coordinator; and Andra Tarta, Newsletter Coordinator.

For our Earth Day Changemaker Chat, we talked to Margo Malowney, an Olympian who now brings her elite athlete mindset to driving business, sustainability, and systems change. Margo is a board member with the Ontario Volleyball Association, an EcoAthletes Champion, and a Partnership Lead with TOCW.