Tori Tsui

Tsui was born in Auckland, New Zealand and grew up in Hong Kong.{{Cite web |last=Ng |first=Chanel |title=Tori Tsui: an Intersectional Approach to the Climate Crisis 🇭🇰🇬🇧 |url=https://www.aeyn.org/our-heroes/tori-tsui |access-date=2022-03-17 |website=Asian Environmental Youth Network |language=en-US}}

She graduated in 2015 with a Master of Research in Ecology, Evolution and Conservation at Imperial College London.{{Cite web |title=Sail to the COP Participants |url=https://www.sailtothecop.com/project/participants |access-date=2022-03-17 |website=www.sailtothecop.com |language=en}} A year after graduating, Tsui moved to Bristol to work in the natural history documentary industry.{{Cite web |date=2020-02-21 |title=Life As I Know It: Sail for Climate Action's Tori Tsui |url=https://eco-age.com/resources/life-i-know-it-sail-climate-action-tori-tsui/ |access-date=2022-03-17 |website=Eco-Age |language=en-GB}}

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Tsui was involved in Extinction Rebellion. After creating media on the biodiversity crisis the creative director of Stella McCartney invited Tsui to model McCartney's global fall/winter campaign. The campaign, entitled ‘Agents of Change’, featured Jane Goodall, Amber Valletta and Jonathan Safran Foer.{{Cite web |date=2019-07-27 |title=Agents of Change: Stella McCartney's new FW/19 campaign |url=https://latestmagazine.wixsite.com/latestmagazine/post/agents-of-change-stella-mccartney-s-new-fw-19-campaign |access-date=2022-03-17 |website=latestmagazine |language=it}}

McCartney subsequently sponsored Tsui to sail across the Atlantic to COP25 as part of Sail To The COP - a think tank initiative involving 36 youths to attend the 2019 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Santiago, Chile. Due to civil unrest in Chile, the event was relocated to Madrid. While in Martinique, the delegates worked remotely on COP25. The ship finally docked in Cartagena.

While in Colombia, Tsui spent three months facilitating a new project called Sail for Climate Action. The project's purpose was to bring Latin American, Indigenous and Caribbean youth activists to attend the United Nations Climate Change Intersessional SB52 in Bonn, Germany.{{Cite web |last=Skincare |first=Activist |title=Mental Health & Climate Activist Tori Tsui |url=https://activistskincare.com/blogs/journal/tori-tsui |access-date=2022-03-18 |website=Activist Skincare |language=en}}

In Cartagena, Tsui was invited to replace David Wallace-Wells at the Hay Festival in a panel discussion on climate change.{{Cite web |last=Berridge |first=George |title=Red Lionfish and Black Vultures |url=https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/literature-climate-catastrophe-hay-festival-cartagena |access-date=2022-01-26 |website=TLS |language=en}}

Later, Sail for Climate Action was rebranded to Unite for Climate Action.{{Cite web |title=About Us |url=https://www.uniteforclimateaction.com/about-3 |access-date=2022-03-18 |website=U4CA |language=en}} The project collaborated with the German Ministry in 2020.{{Cite web |title=Tori Tsui on being a climate activist |url=https://www.besean.co.uk/spotlight/2020/tori-tsui-climate-activism |access-date=2022-03-18 |website=besea.n |language=en-US}}

In 2021, Tsui launched the Pass the Mic initiative with Dominique Palmer, Frances Fox, George Steedman Jones and Elijah Mckenzie-Jackson called Pass the Mic as a way to shed light on the climate crisis. The campaign was focused on targeting brands, figures and organisation to give the frontline climate activist and people affected by the climate change.{{Cite web |date=2021-10-30 |title=Beyond Extinction Rebellion: the protest groups fighting on the climate frontline |url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/oct/30/beyond-extinction-rebellion-the-protest-groups-fighting-on-the-climate-frontline |access-date=2022-03-18 |website=the Guardian |language=en}}

Tsui has also spoken out on the #StopCambo Campaign against North Sea oil and gas in decision making spaces, leading a protest against Ben Van Beurden at TED Countdown in Edinburgh. Later that year she attended the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference.{{Cite web |last=Wan |first=Jess |date=2022-03-04 |title=In Conversation With Tori Tsui, Intersectional Climate Justice Activist and Co-Founder of 'Bad Activist Collective' |url=https://shadesofnoir.org.uk/in-conversation-with-tori-tsui-intersectional-climate-justice-activist-and-co-founder-of-bad-activist-collective/ |access-date=2022-03-18 |website=Shades Of Noir |language=en-GB}} Emma Watson invited Tsui to participate in a New York Times climate hub event alongside Amanda Gorman, Malala Yousafzai, Greta Thunberg, Vanessa Nakate, Dominique Palmer, Mya-Rose Craig, Viviam Villafana and Daphne Frias.{{Cite web |last=Chan |first=Emily |date=2021-11-05 |title=Emma Watson Is Back Being A Book Fairy For Cop26 |url=https://www.vogue.co.uk/arts-and-lifestyle/article/emma-watson-books-environment-cop26 |access-date=2023-01-25 |website=Vogue|language=en-GB}}

In January 2023, Tsui was invited to be on the digital front cover of Vogue with Billie Eilish and Quannah Chasinghorse, Xiye Bastida, Isaias Hernandez, Ryan Berberet, Nalleli Cobo, Wawa Gatheru and Maya Penn.{{Cite web |last=Wang |first=Jen |date=2023-04-01 |title=Our Future: Billie Eilish on Climate Activism and Radical Hope |url=https://www.vogue.com/article/billie-eilish-climate-activism-january-cover-2022-video |website=Vogue|language=en-GB}}

Tsui works with Brian Eno's organisation EarthPercent.{{Cite web |title=Tori Tsui – The Good Clothes Show |url=https://thegoodclothesshow.com/speaker/tori-tsui/ |access-date=2024-08-08 |website=thegoodclothesshow.com}}

Tsui released her debut book, It's Not Just You (Simon and Schuster {{ISBN|9781398508729}}) in 2023. The book features interviews from Greta Thunberg, Vanessa Nakate, Mikaela Loach and Dominique Palmer.{{Cite magazine |magazine=Vogue|first=Diyora | last=Shadijanova| date=4 January 2023 |title=Tori Tsui Is Changing the Conversation Around Mental Health and the Climate Crisis |url=https://www.vogue.com/article/tori-tsui-mental-health-climate-crisis-interview |access-date=29 July 2024|language=en-US}} The book was shortlisted for the 2024 Wainwright Prize for Writing on Conservation.{{Cite web |title=Shortlist |url=https://wainwrightprize.com/shortlist/ |access-date=2024-08-20 |website=Wainwright Prize |language=en-GB}}

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