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.

Alex is deputy CEO at non-profit The Diana Award, a legacy of Princess Diana’s belief that young people have the power to change the world. He's also founder of the peer-to-peer support programme Anti-Bullying Ambassadors, a network of trained young people dedicated to preventing peer-on-peer violence and bullying, particularly in schools. He sits on the global safety advisory boards of several major social media and tech companies advising their approach to safety and online harms. Named Independent on Sunday's Happy List, 1 of ‘100 people who make Britain a happier place to live’, he has a keen interest in the barriers to children’s happiness and wellbeing.

In 2018, Natalie Chung and a team of environmentalists founded V'air Sustainability Education, a social enterprise promoting sustainable tourism and climate education that transforms nature-based experiences for the private and public sectors. She holds an MPhil in environmental management from the University of Oxford and is a global shaper at the World Economic Forum. Previously, Chung has been appointed to serve on advisory councils of the Hong Kong government, including the Council for Carbon Neutrality and the Green Tech Fund Assessment Committee. She was the sole HK representative at the Antarctic Climate Expedition led by Dr. Sylvia Earle.

Anastasiia Fedorova is a senior insights editor at Canvas8. A writer, curator and cultural strategist, she specialises in art, fashion, design, technology and visual culture. Her personal work explores sexuality, identity and queer communities while interrogating our place in a world shaped by rapidly changing technologies. As an avid sci-fi fan since teenage years, she is always interested in thinking about multiple and diverse futures.

Shom Mabaquiao is a Junior Editor for APAC at Canvas8. He’s currently taking his master's in Social Psychology at the University of the Philippines, where he inspects universal human behaviour through the lenses of his local folkways. Outside Canvas8, he writes personal essays that have been published in Adelaide Literary Magazine, Tint Journal, Rappahannock Review, and Katitikan: Literary Journal of the Philippine South, among others. When he’s not working, he’s busy doing stand-up comedy for his therapist after cry-dancing to Taylor Swift.

Ann Gabrielle Domingo is a junior cultural desk researcher at Canvas8. She graduated with a degree in Communication from Ateneo de Manila University, where she took up journalism and advertising tracks while dabbling in social sciences classes. Passionate about tracking Asia’s cultural shifts, she’s also written for the likes of Vogue Philippines, Rappler, and Neocha. She enjoys downtime with her Kindle, curating alternative music playlists, or discovering new hangout spots in Metro Manila.