A Saugeen Shores resident is a senior mentor at Al Gore's Climate Reality Project Leadership Training.
Victoria Serda is sharing her experience with 1,300 new trainees this week in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
She was one of the first 20 Canadians trained by the former U.S. vice president and Nobel Prize Winner back in 2007 in Tennessee.
Serda has championed rural action on climate change ever since she was a teen growing up in Owen Sound. She has been a grassroots organizer, organic farmer, and municipal councillor.
Serda has shared her climate presentation over 90 times with over 25,000 people in Ontario.
She will be mentoring 25 people from around the world, including Israel, Sweden, Italy, Norway, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Hungary and Germany. She'll be helping new trainees understand how to tell their stories, connect and empower audiences.
“This personal training from Al Gore and many experts in science, communication and community organizing will change over 1,300 people’s lives, just as it did for me back in 2007,” Serda says. "They will join over 11,000 people already empowered to be effective local climate leaders around the world.”
