Marlow Baines
Marlow Baines
Drawing upon her five years of experience with Earth Guardians, Marlow Baines (she/hers) weaves together the narrative of why every voice matters in creating a more regenerative world. Through Marlow’s efforts to elevate the voices of her peers, Earth Guardians youth leaders across the globe, and after a long, coordinated effort by Earth Guardians Youth Council members to engage in anti-racism work within the organization, the organization took a giant leap forward in 2021, evolving from a US based nonprofit organization to a truly international and global NGO. As Youth Director, Marlow helped implement the vision of the Earth Guardians Youth Council and the youth leadership role within the organization.
Marlow embodies grace and is articulate and powerful when she speaks about her experience within climate justice organizing and environmental activist and nonprofit spaces. She speaks about her practice of allyship, and what it means to be a co-conspirator, working intergenerationally and interracially to dismantle white supremacy and systemic racism within ourselves and the world. Marlow brings to the stage a wisdom and a degree of emotional intelligence uncommon for speakers her age, which can be experienced and felt by her audience.
As a speaker and leader, Marlow has planned and presented youth programming at conferences in the climate solution and environmental justice spaces, including Bioneers, Earth’s Call, EarthX, Planet Home, VERGE, and many others. Patagonia featured Marlow’s work alongside that of 18 other youth climate activists in their 2019 “Facing Extinction” campaign, which aimed to raise awareness about the global youth climate strikes. Most recently she was a plenary speaker at the Global Summit for 1% for the Planet, a panelist for the EarthX Youth Summit in partnership with YOUNGO, and spoke on the virtual UNIFY Earth Action Leaders Summit for Earth Day 2022.
In 2020, Marlow self-published her first book of poetry, “Little Black Book: A Young Activist’s Love Story” available now on Lulu and Amazon.