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She is the founder (2020) and executive director of Climate Cardinals, an international youth-led non-profit organization, and the youngest United Nations advisor in U.S. history. She is considered one of the global leaders advocating for climate solutions. Her remarks are sought after at high-profile conferences around the world. Media outlets (e.g., CNN, Time Magazine, Washington Post, Vogue, Business Insider, BBC, NPR, ELLE, The Guardian, NBC) devote considerable attention to her.
She is the founder (2020) and executive director of Climate Cardinals, an international youth-led non-profit organization, and the youngest United Nations advisor in U.S. history. She is considered one of the global leaders advocating for climate solutions. Her remarks are sought after at high-profile conferences around the world. Media outlets (e.g., CNN, Time Magazine, Washington Post, Vogue, Business Insider, BBC, NPR, ELLE, The Guardian, NBC) devote considerable attention to her.
At night, stars were obscured by smog – she was alerted, joined “Fridays for Future”, supported actions, including the climate strike on “Black Friday 2019”. In 2019, she became a national strategist for Fridays for Future and a national partnership coordinator for „Zero Hour“. Hunger strike was also one of her tools, in 2020 she was a spokesperson for “Extinction Rebellion”.
In 2020, she was appointed to the new “Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change” of António Guterres, Secretary General of the United Nations (seven young climate leaders), in 2021 she was one of the four co-chairs of the “Youth4Climate” event (Milan), she spoke at the UN Climate Change Conferences “COP26” (2021, Glasgow) and “COP27” (Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt), became a member of the Board of Directors of the United Nations Museum – “UN Live” in 2023.
Her awards: “Motherboard 20 Humans of 2020” (Vice magazine), “21 Under 21” (Teen Vogue), “Forbes 30 Under 30 for Climate Activism,” “Climate Action 30” (Business Insider).
“Climate Cardinals” provides information on climate change in all languages. Named by the northern cardinal, the state bird of the U.S. state of Virginia (where Kianni lives), the organization is a metaphor for information flying around the world. “International Student Environmental Coalition” serves as the sponsor. The average age of the thousands of volunteers from more than 80 countries is about 16, a partnership exists with UNICEF, for example, and a collaboration existed with the AI-powered Google Cloud Translation Hub.
Kianni has written articles for Teen Vogue, Cosmopolitan (Middle East edition), Refinery29, MTV News, Washington Post, CNN (with Greta Thunberg), among others.
She attended Indiana University, transferred to Stanford University, where she studies Science, Technology, and Society, and focuses on climate science and health policy.
She is an accomplished storyteller who has spoken at universities around the world, including Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, Yale, Oxford, Cambridge and Princeton.
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