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Mari Malek is a refugee turned runway model, DJ, and actress. She uses her platform to advocate for children affected by war in South Sudan. She is also the founder of “Stand For Education”.

Sam Dylan Finch is a writer and digital creator making mental health content accessible to all. He is also the founder of ‘Let’s Queer Things Up!’ a community mental health resource by and for the LGBTQ+ community.

Mikah Jones is an activist sharing his methods and perspectives on how he approaches mental health, trauma, and self love. His social media presences on Instagram and TikTok reflects just how impactful his teachings have been.

Satvik Sethi is a mental health activist currently on a mission to make the world happier as the founder and Chief Executive Officer at Runaway, a social entrepreneurial venture that promotes mental health awareness.

Kristal Ambrose is a Marine Plastic Pollution Researcher, Educator, Divemaster, and Environmentalist. She is also the founder and director of Bahama Plastic Movement (@bahamaplasticmovement).

Afroz Shah is a environmental activists and layer from Mumbai. He organised the world's largest beach clean-up project. In 2016 he was named by the UN as a Champion of the Earth for leading the clean-up of Mumbai’s Versova Beach.

Onyx (E.Smith, they/them) is a student activist who founded the non-profit ‘Central Texas GSA Coalition’ with the goal of enhancing the impacts of Gender and Sexuality Alliances (GSA) in Austin, Texas.

Viktória Radványi is the Hungarian winner of the MTV EMAs Generation Change Award 2021. She is also a board member of Budapest Pride, Hungary’s first feminist and anti-racist LGBTQ+ NGO.

Ashton Mota (he/him) uses his voice to empower and uplift Black, Latinx, and LGBTQ+ youth. Mota became the face of the ‘Yes on 3’ movement, a campaign encouraging voters to keep a 2016 state law allowing people to use restrooms that align with their gender identity which was successfully upheld.

Zander Moricz (he/him) is an advocate for LGBTQ+ rights and is one of the youngest plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed against Florida over the ‘Don't Say Gay’ bill.

Sophie Healy-Thow focuses on improving access to safe, affordable, and nutritious food in undernourished communities. Healy-Thow is also a member of the Scaling Up Nutrition Movement (SUN).

Mary-Pat Hector is a Program Strategist at Rise; an organisation led by more than 40,000 students and supporters from colleges and universities across U.S. She has led and organised hunger strikes, gaining more than 75,000 meals for students at HBCUs.

Dawood Qureshi is a talented individual who is passionate about wildlife, conservation, and the environment. She is also the ambassador for the Bumblebee Conservation Trust and Engagement Officer for the nature organisation A Focus On Nature.

Lesein Mutunkei is an avid football player using his skills to protect nature. For every goal he scores, Lesein plants a tree through his initiative Trees 4 Goals.

Juan Acosta is a 24-year-old internationally recognised and award winning LGBTQ+ mental health advocate. He has served on national committees, speaks at conferences and festivals, and is a New York Times bestselling author.

Sophia Badhan is an award-winning Mental Health Campaigner and Speaker. In 2019 she was awarded the Diana award for her work and she is a recipient of the British Citizen Award for Healthcare.

Michelle Abiero is an activist and writer who focuses her work on mental health and feminism. In 2017, Michelle founded Project Fmile to raise awareness and break down the misunderstandings surrounding mental health and suicide in Kenya.

Diana Chao founded Letters to Strangers, a global youth-run organisation seeking to destigmatise mental illness and increase access to affordable, quality treatment.

Ashlyn So is a 14 year old fashion designer and activist who loves to help others. She began her journey at the age of 6 which led to her being named People’s Hero by E! People’s Choice award where she made 1,000 masks for frontline workers.

Pranjal Jain is an Indian-American organiser and Founder of Global Girlhood - a womxn-led organisation that amplify womxn’s stories of empowerment in hopes of increasing representation and challenge biased narratives.

Nancy Bosnoian is a Syrian-American sleep activist who is the founder of End No Sleep, a non-profit dedicated to making sleep resources more accessible to marginalized communities, like refugees and immigrants.

Fatima Al kaabi is a young Emirati activist amplifying the voices of young girls and women in STEM.From an early age, she has been interested in technology and innovation and has gone on to being award the UAE’s youngest inventor in 2015.

Nibras Khudaida is a Yazidi rights advocate who was forced to flee her home of Erbil, Iraq because of ISIS. After being denied her education, she now speaks up for girls’ education worldwide.

Jana Amin is a 18-year old Egyptian-American advocate for gender parity and youth inclusion in the MENA region. Amin has given two TEDx Talks, spoken at the UN, and was recognised as one of Arab-America’s 20 under 20 awardees in 2020.

Venessa Nakate is an 25-year-old Ugandan climate activist. Nakate is the first Fridays For Future climate activist in Uganda and founder of the Rise up Climate Movement.

Dr Mya-Rose Birdgirl Craig D.Sc. h.c. is an 20-year-old birder and activist. She uses her blog to write posts about birding, conservation, and environmental issues from around the world.

The founder of a fashion research studio that focuses on using regenerative materials and systems of production believes that new innovations can only bring about change if we educate society about why they’re necessary.

Xiye Bastida is a climate activist lobbying for global climate action. She is also the co-founder of Re-Earth Initiative, lead organiser for F4F, and sits on the administration committee of the People’s Climate Movement.

Amy and Ella Meek are sisters fighting against plastic pollution and waste in the UK. The pair started Kids Against Plastic in 2016 which helps young people learn about environmental issues.

Licypriya Kangujam is a climate activist who started off protesting outside the Indian Parliament at the age of just 6. She has since addressed world leaders, given Ted talks, and founded ‘The Child Movement’.

Nora Nord is a photographer and artist who recently released her project ‘ADHD’, a series of portraits that highlight the beauty of neurodiversity.

Hailey Hardcastle is a freshman at the University of Oregon and a mental health advocate who helped pass House Bill 2191, which allows students to take mental health days off from school.

Mair Elliott is a young patient advocate who uses her personal experiences with mental health to challenge preconceptions and teach uninformed people about autism.

Betelhem Dessie is the founder and CEO of iCog - Anyone Can Code, a platform democratising technology and technology education for young people in Ethiopia.

Sunniva Ferri is an activist dedicated to ‘embracing change & breaking stereotypes’. She is currently a youth leader for Global Partnership for Education in Germany, providing quality education to children.

Maryam and Nivaal Rehman are twins, both dedicated to using their platform for advocacy and storytelling. Their non-profit ‘The World With MNR’ takes action to support climate justice, gender equality and inclusivity.

Elizabeth Wathuti is an environmentalist and founder of the Green Generation Initiative which is an organisation that teaches young people to be environmentally conscious. She has since planted 30,000 trees in Kenya.

Bella Lack founded The Born Free Foundation at just aged 11, which is a dedicated animal charity that stops the exploitation of animals. She has since become one of the UKs prominant young environmentalists.

Helena Gualinga is an Indigenous environmental and human rights activist who stands against the interests of big oil companies and their environmental impact on Indigenous land in Ecuador.

Tanya Compas is a youth worker, activist, and founder of @existloudly - a safe space for black LGBTQ+ youth from London.

Santiago Sorrenti is an activist, educator, and founder of the LGBTQ+ organisation G(end)er Swap - a London-based ‘clothes swap’ creating a safe space for trans and gender-nonconforming people.

Founder of @youthadvocatesforchange - an organisation amplifying and empowering youth voices. The non-profit has since expanded and has raised over $26,000 providing black youths with scholarship funds.

Meet this little robot created by Mazyar Etehadi (@maz.et) that aims to plant seeds in fertile areas of desert in order to cultivate the land.

@ohhappydani, formerly known as Danielle Coke, is an Illustrator, motivational speaker and activist. She has inspired thousands of people around the world with her elaborate yet digestible illustrations on complex social justice-related issues.

During Christmas of 2021, children in Accra, more specially Achimota Anglican Junior High School, one of the poorest villages in the region were gifted boxes full of Converse from London’s unsold stock.

At just 16-years-old, Christina Adane started a petition on behalf of the 1.4 million children in the UK who rely on free school meals - which has since amassed over 430,000 signatures to date.

Originally from the Bahamas, Lauren Ritchie is passionate about climate change. Not only a student at Colombia, Lauren also founded ecojusticeproject and is a co-host on the blackgirlblueprint.

Diandra co-founded the intersectionalenviromentalist, a resource hub exploring the intersections of social and environmental justice.

Climate activist Wanjiku Gatheru is currently studying at Oxford University and is the founder of @blackgirlenviromentalist. Wawa has created a supportive community of Black girls, women and non-binary environmentalists.

Aliénor (Allie) is an Economics and Public Policy graduate from the University of Toronto. Since the age of 10, She has been an environmental and human rights activist, passionate about sustainability and climate justice.

Chelsea Yamase shares her fascination with the beauty of nature, captures her world adventures, and expresses messages on why we need to tackle pollution via Instagram.

Author, blogger, and climate activist Leah Thomas founded the Intersectional Environmentalist to connect the environmental movement to social problems, especially within the context of racial injustice.

The self-proclaimed “CEO of the Ocean” first moved to Oahu to study engineering, before discovering his true passion: the ocean. He picks up plastic products he finds in our seas.

Morgan Cook runs a blog called Mostly Eco Morgan. It shares tips on living an environmental life, mixed in with titbits on feminism, racial justice, and mental health.

Environmental activist Perise collects plastic waste. His goal is to work directly with the Cameroonian government to ensure structural changes in environmental and waste management.

Founding Force of Nature in 2019 to mobilise mindsets and help us feel not helpless but empowered, Clover Hogan and her team are fostering spaces for young people to embrace these emotions judgement free.

Exemplifying the qualities of this industrious generation – innovative, entrepreneurial, and eager to build a better planet (among many others) – Ann Makosinski is also on a mission to prove that science and art go hand in hand.

Kasha Sequoia Slavner is an award-winning filmmaker and director who made a splash in the industry with her 2017 social change film ‘The Sunrise Storyteller’. She also founded her own social change initiative, The Global Sunrise Project.

Melati Wijsen is part of a growing phalanx of Gen Zers determined to shape our planet’s future. Her latest social venture YOUTHTOPIA, a community-centric learning platform that’s set to become the go-to HQ for aspiring changemakers.

Kopano Tsengiwe and Nwabisa Mpotulo, both 25 from Johannesburg, founded the Kwanisa Foundation and started delivering food packages to families in need.