AT 21, SOPHIA KIANNI HAS ALREADY PACKED IN MORE experiences than many people have in a lifetime, all with a singular goal: to help educate people around the world about climate change.
The heart of her work is Climate Cardinals, a nonprofit she founded when she was 17 that aims to make information and research about climate change more accessible to people who don’t speak English. That work led directly to her appointment in 2020 as a United Nations advisor on climate change—the youngest UN advisor
