Featured Keynotes, Facilitators, Practitioners and Artist

Stephanie Janeth Salgado Altamirano (She/Ella/They/Elle) Born and raised in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Stephanie moved to Madison, Wisconsin, in 2015. She graduated as a co-author of the book Green Card Youth Voices Madison & Milwaukee with honors from Vel Phillips Memorial High School as an ESL student and from UW–Madison with degrees in Environmental Studies and Political Science and with certificates in Chicané/Latiné Studies and Public Policy. Stephanie founded the Memorial High School Green Club after awareness of the interaction of systems of oppression led her to climate justice activism. The Green Club along other high schoolers climate justice activists helped organize the 2019 Madison Climate Strike, out of which emerged the Youth Climate Action Team (YCAT), a nonprofit that mobilizes young people to demand climate justice. Stephanie was subsequently invited to join the Wisconsin Governor’s Task Force on Climate Change, which issued its landmark report in December 2020. Stephanie has since been working as a community organizer, youth educator, and activist on the intersectionality of climate justice, racial justice, immigration justice, gender equality, and indigenous rights. In addition to being part of the Curators Team for YWCA Madison Racial Justice Summit, Stephanie is the coordinator of the youth leadership program of [Re]Generación in Centro Hispano.