Sedona has suffered from asthma her whole life and was diagnosed when she was just a one-year-old living in Salt Lake City. When she was a baby, Sedona had to be treated with nebulizers several times a week, and often several times a day, to help prevent life-threatening asthma attacks in Utah’s dangerous air quality. She often had to be treated with steroids to control her asthma in hazardous air conditions, and by the time she was three, she needed steroids daily.

Sedona experiences stress and anxiety because of the harms to her health that she has already suffered from Utah’s dangerous air quality and even further dangers.

To reduce air pollution and help combat the climate crisis, Sedona and her family reduce their vehicle miles, drive a hybrid vehicle, carpool, and use public transportation and bike as much as possible. However, Sedona finds it stressful and frustrating that adults are always saying her generation must fix climate change, but they don’t have the power alone to do so. She believes the government should focus on other ways to meet energy needs rather than promoting fossil fuels.