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DESCRIPTION:Sophia Kianni is an Iranian-American social entrepreneur and ac
 tivist. She studied at Stanford University and is the founder of Climate Ca
 rdinals\, the world’s largest youth-led climate nonprofit\, with 10\,000 vo
 lunteers in 80+ countries. She is the youngest United Nations advisor in US
  history. She was most recently appointed to serve on the EPA’s National Yo
 uth Advisory Council. \n\nSophia has amassed a following of over 300\,000 a
 cross social media platforms\, and her work has been profiled by The New Yo
 rk Times\, CNN\, Vogue\, Business Insider\, BBC\, NPR\, ELLE\, The Guardian
 \, NBC\, and even on the front page of The Washington Post. She has also au
 thored opinion pieces for outlets such as TIME Magazine\, MTV News\, Cosmop
 olitan\, Teen Vogue\, and Yale Climate Connections. Sophia is a prolific st
 oryteller and has spoken at universities worldwide\, including Harvard\, St
 anford\, Columbia\, MIT\, Oxford\, Cambridge\, and Princeton. \n\nSophia wo
 n the TED Global Ideas Competition\, and her debut TED Talk has 2+ million 
 views. She has sat on boards and advisory councils for The New York Times\,
  the World Economic Forum\, Ashoka\, the American Lung Association\, the Re
 form Alliance\, and Lady Gaga's Born This Way Foundation. \n\nSophia has be
 en named VICE Media's youngest Human of the Year\, a National Geographic Yo
 ung Explorer\, on Business Insider’s Climate Action 30\, among BBC’s 100 Wo
 men\, and to Forbes 30 under 30.\n\nThe event is co-sponsored by the Enviro
 nmental Studies Program\, EcoPledge\, and Climate Justice
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SUMMARY:How to Change the World: Activism 101 with Sophia Kianni
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