Villaseñor 's fight for climate action was sparked when she was caught in a smoke cloud from the November 2018 Camp Fire in California during a family visit . As an asthma sufferer , she became physically ill , during which time she researched the climate change and temperature rises which contributed to the fire 's severity . Her mother was enrolled for climate change courses at Columbia University and she sat in on those , learning about the underlying science . Soon afterwards , she joined New York 's chapter of Zero Hour , a group of American youth climate activists
Camp Fire
Camp Fire (2018)
Alexandria Villaseñor