Meet the Mentors
Rooj Ali
Rooj Ali is currently a second year undergraduate student at the University of Toronto, studying Peace Conflict & Justice as well as History. She is a youth co-chair of the Youth Nuclear Peace Summit and a youth coordinator for Reverse the Trend Canada (RTTC). She has taken part in various events and projects including the launch of Reverse the Trend: Save Our Planet, Save Our People where she is a coordinator.
Rooj is a member of the Canadian Council of Young Feminists and previously held an internship as a Manitoba High School Liaison in Senator Marilou McPhedran’s office where both projects overlap. She co-led her cities successful Campaign for the ICAN Cities Appeal in 2021 and completed a summer internship with the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War Canada. Rooj attended the Hiroshima G7 Youth Summit as a Canadian delegate and will be continuing her activities on the Cities appeal and youth engagement with RTTC following the youth summit. She seeks to create positive contributions towards the advancement of nuclear disarmament and youth led initiatives.
Alei Rizvi
He graduated from New York University in 2021 with a B.A. in International Relations and Economics with a regional specialization in the Middle East and North Africa. He has an extensive history of disarmament and climate justice activism and has attended many international conferences with the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation and Reverse the Trend, including the First Meeting of State Parties to the TPNW in Vienna (2022), the ICAN Youth Forum in Paris (2020), and the Global Youth Forum on the TPNW in Auckland (2018).