NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

• EMMA MOGUS, Canada

Emma is an ardent supporter of YL’s vision to be present in every school in the world. Emma’s priority are CHILDREN’S RIGHTS and she has many touching and exciting success stories to share, as well as efficient ways for you to make a difference using our resources and network. As co-founder of Books With No Bounds, she has mobilized schools, citizens, authors, publishers and media to raise more than 100,000 books for kids and schools in 49 aboriginal fly-in communities of Canada, and has built bridges of peace, friendship and collaboration on 3 continents. Her incredible experience as an activist, starring in Free The Children / We Day movies, national news and commercials, as MC of the World’s Children’s Prize and more make her a unique speaker, presenter and mentor.

• AVALON THEISEN, USA

Avalon is a magic box of surprise, knowledge and solutions for everything NATURE, ENVIRONMENT, ANIMALS and ECOSYSTEMS. Fired up by YL’s holistic and creative approach, Avalon is strongly interacting with youth leaders, our media tools, educators and schools in our network. As founder of Conserve-It-Forward and a native of Florida’s swamps and wildlife, you meet her feet in the mud and up in the air with red-eyed tree frogs. An adventurer, explorer, citizen scientist, campaigner, artist, filmmaker and editor, Avalon has educated kids, parents, teachers and led summer camp groups from an early age, and founded her own organization Conserve It Forward. In high demand inter/nationally for her multi-faceted commitment to peace, health and sustainability, she raised eyebrows and stakes at COP21 in Paris, asking that the UN get serious about the main cause of 50% of global warming, ecosystem destruction and species loss – factory meat farming – and facilitate the shift to a lush, yummy, vegan diet for everybody. Avalon takes you for a surf on the tidal wave of humanity!

EUROPE

EUROPE

• ERIC SCHNEIDER, Germany

Oh, you can read about this guy on top of this page. He’s your dude for general strategic collaborations and presentations on the main pillars merged in YL: the youth leadership phenomenon, positive change media culture, high-impact changemaker student clubs, how to weave youth leadership into learning culture (powered by students), as well as tricky secrets, needs, nasty cans of worms, and blissful miracles for overcoming the Dark Age of Unsustainability. If Eric has a priority it is ACTION-orientation; when booking him, make sure to open space for enabling tangible results by empowering the audience. Also: Eric is not capable fall back into a stoneage of linear powerpoint presentations. He’ll be creating from the moment, using a mix of usb stick, cardgame, posters, web, and call in some friends “live on skype” if they’re online.

• KARL WALKER, Great Britain

Karl is a dynamic driver of intersectorial collaboration in the fields of education, entrepreneurship, media, communications, culture and community, equipped with the skills, suits, tricks and traps of the corporate world, know-how of the Climate Reality Project, a globetrotter’s experience of magical moments in nature as well as speeches and projects at schools in many parts of the planet. Karl has a focus on developing innovative global school-based co-learning worknets for a sound, holistic response to climate issues – empowering youth and citizens to manually make their region climate change resilient and – BINGO! – at the same time creating peace and abundance for all. The way things go, you may also meet Karl with Russel Brand, dishing out evolution memes to a global audience or marvelling about Britain’s rewilding. It’s not like he’s sitting idle, so get him involved!

• OMANG AGARWAL, India

Omang is a Social Activist and Youth Advocate for Education, Gender Equality and Peace building. Omang’s former and present positions include District Interact representative, Rotary Action Group for Peace, Asia Representative for the Commonwealth Peace Network, A World at School, HeforShe Delhi Youth Voices (mobilizing 67,000 people to pledge their support for the campaign), the UN Major Group for Children and Youth and a Policy Strategy Group member at the World We Want 2015. His project HumAct was recognized as one of the top 8 Success Stories at the World Humanitarian Summit Global Consultation in Geneva hosted by the UNOCHA. He has been involved with strategizing various inter/national NGOs, organizing MUN’s and – he raves about YL as the necessary game changer for going beyond anything the word has seen.

• TASHI DORJI, Bhutan

is director of Earth Guardians Bhutan, an extraordinary crew in the global Earth Guardians tribe. As children of the secluded Buddhist kingdom nestled in the majestic Himalayan mountains, the crews and their student relations maintain a strong connection to genuine spiritual values, to the land, its people, the invisible realms and our common humanity. Bhutan represents a spectacular example to the world with its constitutional principle of Gross National Happiness GNH, its transformation to a collaborative democracy of shared stewardship, and making the country 100% organic and sustainable by 2025. We feel honoured and excited to evolve YL in the most beautiful, healthy, peaceful and well governed country on Earth, in collaboration with school and college students, educators, young social entrepreneurs, the GNH curriculum, government, and of course in vivid collaboration with schools around the planet!

• ABHAY RANGAN, India

At age 18, Abhay has developed his own mathematical thesis, published a book, launched a vegan food service, plays and promotes vegan traditional drums, and has founded Vegania Nation, India’s most active animal rights network, leading highly creative protests, marches, banner campaigns and educationalprograms at schools. We partner with Vegania Nation for global promotion of veganism, and for holistic inspiration and empowerment of school students reached by Vegania Nation members presentations across India.

• KJELL KÜHNE, Mexico

is a world citizen and climate activist with a diverse set of insights into the climate challenge. His journey has taken him to five continents, working with very different people from all walks of life such as government, business, NGOs, farmers, indigenous people, schools, universities etc., groups like ZERI, WWF, Plant-for-the-Planet and Climate Justice Ambassadors. In 2011 he initiated the Leave-It-In-The-Ground coalition and has been working towards the LINGO goals since then. Kjell developed the world’s most clear and powerful Climate Change infographic (eclipsing all other incomplete and lukewarm infos) that Eric put into visual form, and which we promote for use in education and activism. Kjell is German, trained as a psychologist and anthropologist and is fluent in English, German, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Chinese, Indonesian and Lingala, and lives with his family in Chiapas, Mexico.

• ANDREA MENDEZ-BRANDAM, Argentina

is the founder of world-leading, multi-award winning N+ Noticias Positivas Radio Magazine, the cross-platform positive news radio model. On a $100 budget and a home office, Andrea started a community radio show, soon scaling to creating 55min ready-to-air shows – with interviews, skype interviews, music, jingles all included – distributed to 120 radios reaching 3 million listeners (!); you go do that, baby! Andrea has published 8-page special editions in the nation’s largest print paper, covered international events, presented and trained across the Americas and scored N+ the first B-Corp status as a news medium. Andrea knows Eric and YL since hers and YL’s founding days in 2004, loong before youtube, facebook and wordpress. Geez, we’ve seen it all – and we still know that OUR ventures are still the lone leaders in their fields. With YOU, we intend to take both YL and N+ models everywhere! Are you into running positive news shows as school, uni and citizen radio? Let’s GO LIVE!