Sophia Kianni是领英影响力人物

Founder of Phia | Founder of Climate Cardinals | Stanford | Forbes 30 under 30 | Youngest UN Advisor

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Sophia Kianni is an Iranian-American entrepreneur and activist. She studied at Stanford University and is the founder of Climate Cardinals, the world’s largest youth-led climate nonprofit, with 16,000 volunteers in 80+ countries. She is also a founder of Phia, a forthcoming digital fashion platform, alongside Stanford peer Phoebe Gates. She was most recently appointed to serve on the EPA’s National Youth Advisory Council and is the youngest United Nations advisor in US history.

Sophia has amassed a following of over 300,000 across social media platforms and her work has been profiled by The New York Times, CNN, Vogue, Business Insider, BBC, NPR, ELLE, The Guardian, NBC, and even on the front page of The Washington Post. She has also authored opinion pieces for outlets such as TIME Magazine, MTV News, Cosmopolitan, Teen Vogue, and Yale Climate Connections.

Sophia is a prolific storyteller and has spoken at universities across the world including Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, MIT, Oxford, Cambridge, and Princeton. She has sat on boards and advisory councils for The New York Times, World Economic Forum, Ashoka, American Lung Association, Reform Alliance, and Lady Gaga's Born This Way Foundation. She won the TED global idea competition and her debut TED Talk has 2+ million views.

She has been named VICE Media's youngest Human of the Year, a National Geographic Young Explorer, on Business Insider’s Climate Action 30, among BBC’s 100 Women, and to Forbes 30 under 30.

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工作经历

  • Phia图片

    Founder

    Phia

    - 至今 1 年 9 个月

    Co-founder of a digital fashion platform alongside my Stanford peer, Phoebe Gates.

    Future of fashion. Coming soon.

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    Founder & President

    Climate Cardinals

    - 至今 5 年 5 个月

    Climate Cardinals is the world's largest youth-led climate nonprofit. We empower young people to educate and mobilize communities for climate action. This starts with translations. We’ve shown we can deliver, translating millions words of climate information into 100+ languages, and partnering with Google to accelerate our translations through AI.

    16,000+ volunteers.
    80+ countries.
    3,000,000+ words translated.

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    Youngest Advisor

    United Nations

    - 至今 4 年 8 个月

    Represented the United States as the youngest Climate Advisor to the UN Secretary-General, António Guterres.

    Appointed as a co-chair and to the steering committee for the UNDP and Italian Government on Youth4Climate, including their multimillion dollar prize pool. Elected to the steering committee of UNESCO's youth-led climate group, YoU-CAN and youngest appointed WHO advisor in history.

    First appointed Advisor to the United Nations Association (UNA-USA).

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    Public Speaker

    TED Conferences

    - 至今 5 年 2 个月

    Selected out of thousands of applicants as the winner of TED Talks’ Global Idea Search.

    Gave my talk at the TED Countdown Conference: Tackling climate change by translating critical climate information from English to other languages. (2 million+ views)

    Spoken at major events including FORTUNE Impact, Coachella, IBM Think, Arch Summit, Bermuda Climate Summit, Web Summit, Washington Post Climate Summit, WIRED Green, and New York Times Climate Forward.

    Keynote speaker…

    Selected out of thousands of applicants as the winner of TED Talks’ Global Idea Search.

    Gave my talk at the TED Countdown Conference: Tackling climate change by translating critical climate information from English to other languages. (2 million+ views)

    Spoken at major events including FORTUNE Impact, Coachella, IBM Think, Arch Summit, Bermuda Climate Summit, Web Summit, Washington Post Climate Summit, WIRED Green, and New York Times Climate Forward.

    Keynote speaker, panelist at schools including Stanford University, Columbia University, Harvard University, UC Berkeley, Oregon University, Michigan Tech, and Emory University.

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    776 Fellow

    776 Foundation

    - 至今 1 年 9 个月

  • US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)图片

    National Youth Advisory Council

    US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

    - 至今 1 年 4 个月

  • Una Terra Venture Capital Fund图片

    VC Impact Advisory Board

    Una Terra Venture Capital Fund

    - 至今 2 年 2 个月

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    Young Explorer

    National Geographic

    - 至今 4 年 2 个月

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    Future Shapers Advisory Council

    REFORM Alliance

    - 至今 2 年 1 个月

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    Lady Gaga’s Foundation Advisory Board

    Born This Way Foundation

    - 至今 2 年 2 个月

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    Board Member

    Environmental Media Association

    - 至今 2 年 1 个月

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    Freelance Journalist

    PBS NewsHour

    - 至今 5 年 4 个月

    Writing for TIME Magazine, CNN, The Washington Post, MTV News, UN News, UNICEF, BuzzFeed, Teen Vogue, Yale Climate Connections, Cosmopolitan, Refinery 29 and more. PBS NewsHour Homegrown Fellow.

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    Climate Advisor

    American Lung Association

    - 3 年 11 个月

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    Creative Council

    Climate Power

    - 9 个月

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    Advisory Board

    Kite Insights

    - 1 年 10 个月

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    Fellow

    Sigma Squared Society

    - 1 年 11 个月

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    Impact Fund Leader

    The INKEY List

    - 2 年

    Distributing the Inkey Impact Fund to youth grantees.

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    Co-Chair, Representative, Global Restoration Youth Hub

    World Economic Forum

    - 2 年 3 个月

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    Advisory Board

    Earth Percent

    - 3 年

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    Stakeholder Council

    1t.org

    - 1 年 6 个月

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    Young Changemaker Fellowship

    Ashoka

    - 2 年 1 个月

  • The Iris Project图片

    Advisory Council Member

    The Iris Project

    - 1 年 9 个月

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    Climate Advisory Council

    Web Summit

    - 1 年 1 个月

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    Generation Climate Advisory Council

    The New York Times

    - 9 个月

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    Impact Advisor

    EarthX

    - 1 年 3 个月

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    Senior Partner

    JUV Consulting

    - 2 年 7 个月

    JUV Consulting is a Generation Z Marketing Agency that works with over 20 Fortune 500 companies to authentically engage young audiences. I was hired as a Consultant and then promoted to Junior Partner, before becoming the Senior Partner of Social Impact.

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    Breakthrough VC

    Stanford ASES

    - 4 个月

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    Intern

    Stanford Women in Business

    - 9 个月

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