The goal of the Change Your World conference is to inspire youth in Ontario to be the next generation of environmentally active citizens. We welcome high school students and their teachers to this dynamic one-day conference that brings together youth and community organizations from across Ontario to discuss, collaborate and learn how to make sustainable and equitable change in our world.
Change Your World 2020 COMING SOON!
Agenda
8:30am-9:30am | Registration York University, Keele Campus |
9:30am-10:45am | Opening Ceremonies York University, Keele Campus |
10:45am to 11am | Break York University, Keele Campus |
11am to Noon | Workshop #1 York University, Keele Campus |
Noon to 1pm | Lunch York University, Keele Campus |
1pm to 2pm | Workshop #2 York University, Keele Campus |
2:00pm to 2:30pm | Closing Ceremonies York University, Keele Campus |
Keynote Speaker and Workshop Organizations
Keynote Speakers

Dianne Saxe
York University McMurtry Fellow and former Environmental Commissioner of Ontario
Opening Keynote Speaker

Larissa Crawford
York University Alumni and Action Canada Fellow
Opening Keynote Speaker

Sam Demma
Youth Speaker and Alumni of the Top 35 under 35 Global Changemaker Award
Closing Keynote Speaker
Past Keynote Speakers
- 2018 – Sara Escallon-Sotomayor, youth activist and founder of Not Just Rumors
- 2017 – Sarika Cullis-Suzuki
- 2016 – Jennifer Corriero
- 2015 – Tzeporah Berman
2019 Conference Workshops
Change Your World offers students and teachers the opportunity to expand their passion for the environment with hands-on skill building and interactive workshops. Supported by our dynamic eco-partners across the province, these workshops will provide you with the skills you need to make positive change in your school & communities.
STUDENT WORKSHOPS HOSTED BY
This list will help your students select the workshops that they are most interested in attending. They can choose three of the sessions offered below for the other two workshops they will attend at the conference.
We encourage students from each school to select a variety of different workshops and bring back the information to share with their peers. Once they have decided which sessions they would like to attend, please complete the Workshop Allocation form and submit this to us by Wednesday, October 9, 2019.
1. Featured Sessions: 3% Project is coming to Change Your World!
3% Project mobilizes 1,000,000 Canadian youth – that’s 3% of Canada – through 5 national tours across 600 high schools. We present climate solutions in the holistic context of the Sustainable Development Goals and the Fourth Industrial Revolution themed: “The Future We Want.” Students identify, analyze, and develop solutions to their community’s Biggest Sustainability Challenge, exercising the muscle for sustainability problem-solving skills to make it a core competency of our generation. In essence,3% Project empowers the final generation who can solve climate change.
TEACHER WORKSHOPS
We have developed a professional development day for teachers attending the conference that centers on bringing environmental education into your classrooms. All teachers will participate in the following session during both workshop periods on our conference agenda:
Earth to Tables Legacies: A multi-media educational package to enliven your classroom
Food is a great starting point for lively conversations about the environment: human health and the health of the planet, biodiversity and cultural diversity, land and Indigenous rights, climate and food justice. The Earth to Tables Legacies project is creating a multi-media educational package based on a 4-year exchange between youth and elders, rural and urban food activists from Indigenous and settler communities in Canada and Mexico.
This dynamic workshop program will introduce you to a website where you can access not only short videos and photo essays, but also teachers’ guides that help you use these media tools for deeper discussion, hands on activities, and further research in the classroom. We’ll try out some of the proposed questions and activities, welcoming your feedback on the draft multi-media platform to be launched in 2020.
Facilitators for the workshop include Professor Emeritus and settler food activist/photographer, Deborah Barndt, and two FES PhD students: Alexandra Gelis, Colombian-Canadian multi-media artist, Chandra Maracle, Mohawk food leader from Six Nations.
Our Sponsors
Hospitality Sponsor

Workshop Leader Recognition

Contact
Who
Lily Piccone
Conference Coordinator, Faculty of Environmental Studies
Aliya Din
Student Conference Coordinator