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Sophia Kianni

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Sophia Kianni
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Kianni in 2020
Born (2001-12-13) December 13, 2001 (age 23)
🏳️ NationalityUnited States
💼 Occupation
climate activist, environmental activist, freelance journalist
📆 Years active  2019–present
MovementSchool strike for climate, Environmental Movement

Sophia Kianni (born December 13, 2001) is an American writer and climate activist specializing in media and strategy. She works with environmental groups Fridays for Future, Extinction Rebellion, and This is Zero Hour.

Activism[edit]

Kianni speaking at the Black Friday climate strike in 2019

Kianni writes that she became interested in climate activism during middle school, when she was in Tehran, where her relatives live, and one night looked up at the night sky and couldn't see any stars due to the pollution.[1] She joined Greta Thunberg's group, Fridays for Future, and would take time off from class or share supportive photos on social media.[1] She helped organize the 2019 Black Friday climate strike.[2] By 2019 she was a national strategist for Fridays for Future, and a national partnerships coordinator for This is Zero Hour, another environmental advocacy group.[3][2]

Kianni (right) with Jane Fonda before the United States Capitol building

In November 2019, Kianni skipped school to join a group of protesters organized by Extinction Rebellion (XR) who intended to stage a week-long hunger strike and sit-in at the Washington, D.C. office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, demanding that she speak with them for an hour on camera about climate change. Nearly 300 people across 27 countries had pledged to join the global hunger strike.[4][5] Locally, there were roughly a dozen participants; at 17 years old, Kianni was the youngest, and one of two women.[6][4] Kianni was not a member of XR, and only participated in the first day of the sit-in, but gave a prepared speech and interviews to the press, and continued the hunger strike remotely.[6][7][8] The sit-in ended on the fourth day when the remaining 9 activists stormed into Pelosi's conference room, and were arrested for trespassing.[9] Kianni wrote about her participation in the protest for Teen Vogue.[1] By February 2020, Kianni was a member of and a spokesperson for Extinction Rebellion, and participated in their social media planning and outreach.[10][11]

In the spring of 2020, Kianni's physical activism was curtailed by the school closing and social distancing requirements of the COVID-19 pandemic. Her scheduled paid speaking engagements at colleges such as Stanford University, Princeton University, Duke University, and a Smithsonian Museum in Washington, D.C. were cancelled.[12][13] But she was able to continue some activism virtually. Her talk at Michigan Technological University was held online via Zoom,[14] and she filmed a podcast with The Earth Institute at Columbia University.[3] In addition, Kianni decided to accelerate development of a planned website, Climate Cardinals, that would provide information on climate change in as many languages as possible, inspired by the years she spent translating English language global warming information into Farsi for her Iranian relatives.[12][15]

Writing[edit]

Kianni wrote a 2019 article for Teen Vogue about the Pelosi office hunger strike.[1] In 2020, she wrote two articles about the effects of the coronavirus, for the Middle East edition of Cosmopolitan magazine about the effects on her extended family's celebration of Nowruz,[16] and another for Refinery29 about the effects on her daily schedule as a climate activist, which was widely syndicated.[17] She wrote an article for MTV News for the 20th anniversary of Earth Day, which she helped coordinate.[18]

Personal life[edit]

Kianni was born December 13, 2001.[17][6] She lives with her mother, father, younger sister, and two pet lovebirds, in McLean, Virginia.[13][3] She studied at Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Middle School, where her team won the statewide Science Olympiad,[19] and at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, where she was a National Merit Scholarship Program semifinalist.[20][12] In her senior year, 2019-2020, she had four Advanced Placement classes, and was applying to colleges to study public policy and sustainable business.[6]

Kianni got extensive media attention as an example teenager reacting to the Social distancing measures related to the COVID-19 pandemic: CNN, Time magazine, and the Washington Post wrote about how she and her friends were moving personal interaction and even their physically cancelled senior prom to Zoom video chats, and TikTok videos.[21][3][22][13]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Kianni, Sophia (December 11, 2019). "Why I Went on Hunger Strike at Nancy Pelosi's Office". Teen Vogue. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Nayak, Anika (December 20, 2019). "Best Sustainable Gift Ideas for Your Environmentally-Conscious Friends". Teen Vogue. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Andrews, Travis M. (March 30, 2020). "We're all video chatting now. But some of us hate it". Washington Post. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Holden, Emily (18 November 2019). "Hunger strikers target Pelosi in push for Democrats to take action on climate crisis". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 April 2020. Also available as Holden, Emily (November 18, 2019). "Young activists kick off a climate hunger strike by occupying Nancy Pelosi's office". Mother Jones. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
  5. ↑ Will, K. Sophie (21 November 2019). "Extinction Rebellion aims to turn up political heat with hunger strikes". Reuters. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Felton, Lena (November 18, 2019). "Meet the 17-year-old climate activist who skipped school to hunger strike at the Capitol". The Lily. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
  7. ↑ Rowan, Nic (28 November 2019). "Rebels without applause". Washington Examiner. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
  8. ↑ "No Food No Future: Hunger Strike for Climate Action". The Years Project. March 2, 2020. Retrieved 22 April 2020. Sophia went for days without food
  9. ↑ Fears, Darryl (November 21, 2019). "A group of hunger strikers protested peacefully in Nancy Pelosi's office. Then they decided to storm it". Washington Post. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
  10. ↑ Mosher, Eve (February 10, 2020). "Extinction Rebellion Congratulates Oscar Winner and Collaborator Joaquin Phoenix". Extinction Rebellion NYC. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
  11. ↑ Monllos, Kristina (18 March 2020). "How Extinction Rebellion is using social media and marketing to grow a movement". Digiday. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Natanson, Hannah (April 10, 2020). "Their schools and streets empty, teen climate activists find new ways to strike". Washington Post. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 Malinsky, Gili (1 April 2020). "Less Taco Bell, more investing: How a high school senior is learning about money while at home". Acorns. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
  14. ↑ Christensen, Kelley (March 19, 2020). "Michigan Tech virtual World Water Day". The Mining Gazette. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
  15. ↑ Kart, Jeff. "Youth Activist Uses Quarantine To Start Nonprofit That Translates Climate Change Information From English To Other Languages". Forbes. Retrieved 2020-05-19.
  16. ↑ Kianni, Sophia (March 29, 2020). "How coronavirus has affected my celebration of Nowruz". Cosmopolitan Middle East. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 Kianni, Sophia (April 22, 2020). "What It's Really Like To Be A Climate Change Activist In Quarantine". Refinery29. Retrieved 22 April 2020. Also available as Kianni, Sophia (April 22, 2020). "What It's Really Like To Be A Climate Change Activist In Quarantine". Yahoo News. Retrieved 22 April 2020. and Kianni, Sophia (April 22, 2020). "What It's Really Like To Be A Climate Change Activist During Coronavirus". MSN. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
  18. ↑ Kianni, Sophia (April 30, 2020). "Earth Day Has Passed. Now What?". MTV News. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
  19. ↑ "Longfellow Science Olympiad team tops in Virginia". InsideNoVa. April 22, 2016. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
  20. ↑ "Two Hundred Thirty-Seven Students Named 2020 National Merit Semifinalists". Fairfax County Public Schools. September 17, 2019. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
  21. ↑ McCluskey, Megan (March 19, 2020). "How High Schoolers Are Planning Online Prom Parties Amid Coronavirus". Time. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
  22. ↑ Willingham, AJ (April 19, 2020). "Stuck at home, families find a new way to bond: creating TikTok videos". CNN. Retrieved 21 April 2020. Also available as "La course des taureaux a fait de TikTok un moyen amusant de se réunir en famille". Breaking News (in français). 21 April 2020. Retrieved 21 April 2020.



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