Climate change advocate, Stanford graduate, and UN advisor
Sophia Kianni represents the US as the youngest member on the United Nations Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change. She is an undergraduate student at Stanford University, and the founder and executive director of Climate Cardinals, a nonprofit with 8,000 volunteers in 40+ countries working to translate climate information into 100 languages. She is also a senior partner at JUV Consulting, a Gen Z marketing agency. Sophia’s work has been covered by Forbes, CNN, Business Insider, BBC, NPR, Time, The Guardian, NBC, and The Washington Post. She has been named Vice Media's youngest Human of the Year and one of Teen Vogue's 21 under 21.