About adammacisaac
Adam MacIsaac has worked in various areas since graduating from high
school in 2000 from Prince Edward Island, Canada. With his passion for
youth engagement he was the Prince Edward Island Youth Engagement
Coordinator for the Creating Local Connections Canada Project (CLC
Canada) which is an initiative of TakingItGlobal.org (TIG). With Adam’s involvement with TakingITGlobal he
was also a panelist of the 2007 MESH Conference
which is Canada’s premier technology conference where he spoke on the
topic of “The Always-On Generation – What Do Youth Do with the Web?” and
currently has a blog featured on ShowYourRealFace.com.
Throughout his experience working on an organic farm in rural PEI,
traveling to the Dominican Republic and working with Fair Trade Coffee
and Cacao collectives he has developed a strong connection with food
security and environmental issues and currently sits on the Executive
Committee for the Sierra Youth Coalition.
While working as an International Development Intern with Rescue Mission Canada, he has worked with youth on
the international scale and now is living in England working on an United Nations
Development Programme Youth Climate Change Project along with Peace Child International. Adam most recently joined
with other young Canadians on the Canadian Youth
Delegation to Bali, Indonesia and attended the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change where he documented the youth
delegation and the international youth climate movement. In April 2008
Adam received training from Al Gore to present the
Academy Award winning documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” and was a
panelist during a round table discussion at The Royal Commonwealth Society along with Canadian environmentalist Dr. David Suzuki.
