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Kat Dervenis is the Environmental Educator Youth Coordinator at Ecosource. Growing up in a mixed-race family and low-income neighbourhood, Dervenis realized at a young age that minority groups are disproportionately affected by environmental injustices. This sparked her interest in intersectional activism and bottom-up community action to achieve environmental justice. In 2019, Dervenis worked for an Indigenous-run non-profit in southern Belize where she collaborated with Mayan villages to create a cacao cooperative. She also supported Ecosource’s Local Food Team in 2020 at the Iceland Teaching Garden. Dervenis is currently completing a master’s degree in Geography with a focus on the co-production of knowledge between community organizations in southern Ontario and academic institutions as it relates to agroecosystems research.