Xiye Bastida is a 22-year-old climate justice activist from the Otomi-Toltec Indigenous community in Central Mexico. She is an organizer, author, speaker, and storyteller  who is driven to bring Indigenous worldviews and solutions into the climate movement. She attended her first United Nations climate conference in February of 2017, where she brought  Indigenous knowledge into decision-making spaces. Her participation led her to win the Spirit of the UN award in 2018. Since, she has actively participated in international and grassroots advocacy spaces. Xiye has been a youth delegate  in the past five COPs, with the aim of opening the space to diverse youth, and pushing for resolutions that protect marginalized communities and the Earth. Xiye was invited as the only youth speaker at the Biden Climate Summit in 2021, where she spoke to 40 heads of state.

She is the opening essayist in the anthology All We Can Save, and has written numerous op-eds. Xiye  is an international keynote speaker, and is currently the Executive Producer for The Way of The Whale, a feature-length documentary about the migration of the Gray Whale from Mexico to the Arctic Ocean. In 2024, Xiye started a fellowship with the 776 Foundation that will finalize in 2026.