Our Next Generation
Meet the young voices shaping the future through story, art, and advocacy.
Laliwa Hadali Corrie
Writer · Youth Representative · Intercultural Research Assistant
Lokono-Arawak | Caribbean
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Laliwa Hadli Corrie is a Lokono-Arawak youth representative and emerging writer dedicated to keeping Indigenous traditions alive while engaging the modern world. She is a strong voice for Indigenous youth in the Caribbean, demonstrating that it is possible to honor ancestral knowledge while moving confidently into the future.
As a youth representative, Laliwa works to raise awareness about the importance of cultural continuity, intergenerational learning, and Indigenous identity in contemporary life. Her work reflects a deep respect for her heritage alongside a clear understanding of the challenges and possibilities facing Indigenous youth today.
Laliwa also served as an intercultural research assistant, contributing to the fieldwork and completion of the Indigenous feminist case study Carrying Her Voice. Through this work, she helped document the lived experiences of Lokono women across generations, supporting the preservation and transmission of Indigenous knowledge.
Laliwa represents a promising new voice and mind emerging within the Caribbean hemisphere, one rooted in care, responsibility, and a commitment to carrying culture forward.
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Book:
Under the Canopy of Stars: Legends Reimagined from the Heart of the Rainforest
Sabantho Aderi Corrie-Edghill
Writer · Youth Representative · Intercultural Research Assistant
Lokono-Arawak | Caribbean
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Author · Illustrator · Indigenous Advocate · Intercultural Researcher
Lokono-Arawak | Caribbean · Sweden
Sabantho Aderi Corrie-Edghill is a Lokono-Arawak author, illustrator, and Indigenous advocate whose work weaves together storytelling, research, and community care. Through her creative and academic practice, she centers Indigenous presence as living, relational, and continuously evolving.
Her work focuses on Indigenous rights, climate justice, cultural preservation, and amplifying the voices of Indigenous women. Across art, writing, and research spaces, she brings attention to Indigenous knowledge systems as sources of resilience, responsibility, and strength.
As an intercultural researcher, Sabantho has contributed to international discussions on Indigenous rights and climate justice, including research and policy work on environmental migration, climate resilience, and cultural survival in the Caribbean.
Through children’s books such as Kama the Tapir and Mama Bear, Sabantho brings these commitments into early storytelling, inviting young readers and families to explore nature, care, belonging, and respectful relationships with the living world.
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Books:
Kalma the Tapir
Mama Bear
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She is currently working on a forthcoming poetry collection titled The Light in My Calabash.
Pathways of Work, Research, and Advocacy
​The following highlights reflect key moments in Sabantho’s ongoing work across climate advocacy, Indigenous research, policy engagement, and cultural continuity. These experiences are rooted in community, relational accountability, and lived Indigenous knowledge.
Climate advocacy and early public engagement
Sabantho’s engagement in climate advocacy began at a young age through participation in public demonstrations and grassroots actions addressing climate justice and Indigenous rights. Early experiences, including involvement in large scale climate mobilizations, helped shape her understanding of the intersections between environmental justice, Indigenous sovereignty, and global policy spaces.
Publications and Indigenous climate perspectives
In 2021, Sabantho published her first climate focused article in Cultural Survival Quarterly titled A Call to Action: Combating Climate Change in the Caribbean. This marked her first written contribution specifically addressing climate change through an Indigenous Caribbean lens. The article highlights the lived realities of Indigenous communities in the Caribbean and emphasizes the role of Indigenous knowledge systems in responding to environmental change.
Policy engagement and international conferences
Between 2022 and 2023, Sabantho expanded her work into international research and policy spaces. In 2022, she attended her first international climate conference in Germany, strengthening her engagement with climate research, Indigenous policy advocacy, and environmental migration discussions.
This period also led to her contribution to the 2023 International Organization for Migration policy brief on environmental migration and climate change from the perspectives of Indigenous youth in the Caribbean.
Research, case study, and women led knowledge systems
In 2025, Sabantho presented her intercultural research case study titled: Carrying Her Voice focused on Lokono women in Pakuri, Guyana. The study documents how women sustain cultural continuity through everyday land based practices, including cassava preparation, weaving, farming, and storytelling. The research reflects on resilience, memory, and the importance of women led spaces for knowledge transmission.
The recorded presentation can be viewed below.
Continued publications and academic recognition
This research expanded into a published article with Cultural Survival, focusing on women, land based practices, and cultural resilience in Pakuri. In 2025, Sabantho’s second climate related article with Cultural Survival, Resilience Rising: Indigenous Women in the Fight Against Climate Change, received academic recognition and is now referenced in the British Museum’s Anthropological Index for Barbados.
This acknowledgment reflects the growing relevance of Indigenous Caribbean knowledge within academic and institutional contexts.
