YL @ IYONS PROFILES OF YL MEMBERS confirmed as official representatives of their countries at IYONS World Conference for International Youth Organizations involved in addressing the global assembly the Youth Camp workshops school and college presentations the YL Immersion Week
ADORA SVITAK Multimedia Profile link Pacific Standard Magazine described Adora as one of the "30 Top Thinkers Under 30," going on to call her "an activist for feminism, liberal politics, and youth-oriented causes [...] pretty far up the road to becoming intellectual royalty." She is a 2011 recipient of the National Education Association Foundation's Award for Outstanding Service to Public Education. In 2014, she served as a Youth Advisor to the USA Science and Engineering Festival in Washington, DC.
XIUHTEZCATL MARTINEZ Multimedia Profile link UNITED NATIONS Speech, opening high-level event on Climate Change as representative of global civil society HBO - "Saving Our Tomorrow" Showtime- "Years of Living Dangerously" PBS - "Statewide Ban on Fracking" 2013 Presidential Youth Council 2013 Indigenous Warriors Award 2013 Indigenous Youth Environmental Activist Award 2012 International Eco Award 2012 Peace Maker of the Year Award
RACHEL PARENT Articles about Rachel link Biography link Multimedia Profile link CANADA • Post City Magazine, Toronto Top 20 Under 20 2014 • Clean50 Summit, Toronto Emerging Leader 2014 • NOW Magazine, Toronto Environmental Heroes 2013 • Elle Quebec Magazine Our Woman of the Year 2013 USA • Three Dot Dash, Global Teen Leader 2015 • Just Label It, Washington, DC Right to Know Champion
AVALON THEISEN Biography link Multimedia Profile link 2014 Humane Student of the Year Award by Animalearn 2014 Summer of Service Award by Youth Service America 2014 Florida Achievement Award by the Florida Commission on the Status of Women 2014 WEDU Be More Inspiring Rising Star Award 2013 SBN International Youth Award 2013 Greening Forward Earth Savers Club Award 2012 Temple Grandin Award Radio Disney Heroes for Change Award (5/13) 2012 Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes
CASSANDRA LIN Biography link Multimedia Profile link MTV Switch Award Rhode Island School Recycling Club Innovations Award Brower Youth Award President’s Environmental Youth Award NYLC Youth Leadership for ServiceLearning Excellence Award Nickelodeon HALO Award
RHIANNON TOMTISHEN Multimedia Profile link United Nations Forest Heroes Award Brower Youth Award Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes Sea World Environmental Excellency Award Giraffe Hero Commendation
CHLOE MAXMIN Multimedia Profile link Brower Youth Award Gloria Barron Prize Focus feature of the Sundance Channel’s award-winning ecodocumentary, “Big Ideas for a Small Planet,” “Green Hero” by Rolling Stone for her climate activism. Chloe has been featured in The New York Times NPR Bill Moyers Bloomberg Real Time with Bill Maher Chloe writes for The Crimson, The Nation, and other publications.
EMMA & JULIA MOGUS Multimedia Profile link The sisters have been featured on CBC THE NATIONAL, CBC News, CTV Canada AM, Global Television Thunder Bay, TVO KIDS, CHCH TV, City TV, CBC Metro Morning Show, CBC Radio Here and Now and other media. The Helen Keller Fellowship Award (2015, Lions International) The Governor General’s Caring Canadian Award Paul Harris Fellowship (2014, Coburg Rotary Club) Top 20 under 20 Louise Russo W.A.V.E. Youth Award International Diana Award Ontario Heritage Trust’s Young Heritage Leader Award Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal Peace Medallion Award TVO KIDS ‘Super Citizen’ Award
BABAR ALI Multimedia Profile link CNN IBN India's Real Hero NDTV ‘Indian of the Year’ Award His story is part of the syllabus for the CBSE 10th standard English textbook, PUC English textbook for Govt. of Karnataka, and also in a curriculum in Luxembourg, Europe. He was featured on Aamir Khan’s TV show Satyamev Jayate in July 2012, and is regularly invited to speak at various conferences and forums all over the world. TED Fellow INK Conference speaker
ROBYN HAMLYN Multimedia Profile link Robyn has not been in the spotlight of official awards, but having convinced 27 cities to pass part or the whole 3-pronged „Blue Community“ Resolution 1) keeping / making water public 2) making water a human right 3) banning bottled water is beyond awards.
ABBIE BARNES Multimedia Profile link Associate of the Linnean Society of London, 2015 Received one of six places for the 'Wildscreen Roar Talent Bursary', 2014 Shortlisted for 'The Network', 2014 'Save Our Oceans, Recycle Your Plastic' - shortlisted for the Innsbruck Film Festival, 2013 'Save Our Oceans, Recycle Your Plastic' - winner of the EcoTales Film Festival, 2013 'Palm Oil' - winner of the Young People's Trust For The Environment Film Competition, 2012
HASSAN SAEED Multimedia Profile link Hassan has not been in the spotlight of official awards, but having changed the lives of dozens of girls and their families and children to come for life speaks for itself.
NOT TO FORGET We have to get our founder to IYONS, too! That's 1,200 €, and they's worth it.
ERIC SCHNEIDER Multimedia Profile link Founder of YL with an aim to connect humanity's best changemaking knowledge and support networks with the global young generation at school by defining and offering changemaking role models and model solutions in formats applicable in education on a single global platform, in close collaboration with the hero/ines themselves. Works at the intersection of media, cultures, changemaking, education. Re-defines societal concepts and words for congruence with a global, peaceful, just, thriving and sustainable, a sacred civilization. Images & Voices of Hope Award 2012 Known as „Nobel Prize for Media of World Benefit“, earlier laureates include the TED Director and founder of Frontline. Led YL teams India and Youth Rising for Peace to win UNITED NATIONS Online Volunteering Awards 2010 and 2012 Has attracted 10% of the UNOV global flow of online volunteers to apply for YOUTH-LEADER, more than 11,000 applications Member of the National Round table for the Implementation of the UNITED NATIONS Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (UNESCO) Pacemaker in Ashoka's re:imagine Learning Challenge
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