Coordinator

Rooj Ali is currently a second year undergraduate student at the University of Toronto, studying Peace Conflict & Justice as well as History. She has taken part in various events and projects including the launch of Reverse the Trend: Save Our Planet, Save Our People where she is a coordinator, and most recently its mentorship program in the role as lead mentor. Rooj is a member of the Canadian Council of Young Feminists and previously held an internship as a Manitoba High School Liaison in Senator Marilou McPhedran’s office where both projects overlap. She co-led her cities successful Campaign for the ICAN Cities Appeal in 2021 and completed a summer internship with the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War Canada. Rooj attended the Hiroshima G7 Youth Summit as a Canadian delegate and will be continuing her activities on the Cities appeal and youth engagement with RTTC following the youth summit. Rooj has had opportunities to attend both the first and second meeting of state parties to the TPNW as a member of civil society, an experience that has broadened her perspectives on the intersections of nuclear weapons use and how their disarmament can have a wider reach.

Coordinator

Sarah Rohleder is a third year undergraduate student at the University of British Columbia studying history and anthropology. She is a youth coordinator for Reverse the Trend Canada. She was previously an student research intern for Sentaor Marilou McPhedran and is currently a member of her youth advisory council the Canadian Council of Young Feminists and leads its nuclear peace and disarmament group. She has also completed a summer internship with the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War Canada where her project focused on youth education. She was also in attendance for the ICAN Hiroshima G7 Youth Summit, and attended the two meetings of states parties for the TPNW. She had the honour of planning the Youth-Parliament Nuclear Summit in Ottawa as a member of RTT and alongside Senator McPhedran. She is an intern for VOW, and is currently one of the 100 youth worldwide that were selected to participate in the first cohort of the Youth Leader Fund for a World Without Nuclear Weapons that is run by UNODA.

RTT Canada will be a part of the second docuseries of Reverse the Trend which will bring together Canadian youth to create an online zine composed of various writing pieces focused on the theme “ecology of peace” and the environmental preservation of future generations.

Overcoming the Ecological and Humanitarian Threats of the Nuclear Fuel Trajectory and Nuclear Weapons

A discussion on How policy makers can collaborate with Indigenous and First Nations groups to help move the agenda to disarm states of their nuclear weapons and limit reliance on nuclear energy.