Photo courtesy Lilly Platt. 12-year-old Lilly Platt describes herself as a Global Youth Ambassador, Speaker & Environmental Champion – she is in fact one of the biggest environmentalists in the world. She started with a simple aim when she was just 7 years...
Photo by Erin Brethauer. In 2017, Grammy award winner Alicia Keys introduced the world to a proud and fierce 10-year-old: Kheris Rogers. Posting on Instagram, Keys introduced Kheris by saying, “I love this beautiful girl @kherispoppin and I love her mission!...
Seattle climate activist Jamie Margolin, 17, with a collection of the identification badges from climate youth activism conventions she has attended. (Ken Lambert / The Seattle Times) 19-year-old climate justice activist Jamie Margolin is already a force to be...
Helena Gualinga. Photo: Clement Guerra. 19-year-old Helena Gualinga is an environmental and human rights activist from an indigenous community in southeastern Ecuador. Growing up, she split her time between Finland, where her father is from, and her mother’s...
Ella Briggs2019 Connecticut’s Kid Governor. Photo from http://ct.kidgovernor.org/ Ella Briggs is Connecticut’s first openly gay ‘Kid Governor’. The 5th grader was elected by over 6,000 children, running on a platform to support LGBTQ rights,...
Image courtesy ChildrenvsClimateCrisis 13-year-old Catarina Lorenzo is a climate activist from Salvador, Brazil, in the northeastern state of Bahia. She is one of 16 children from across the globe who are petitioning the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the...
