Maya was invited to meet and have a private roundtable discussion with Michelle Obama during the launch of her book Becoming. Maya also founded a nonprofit organization called Maya’s Ideas 4 The Planet and started an ongoing project to give back to women and girls in Haiti, Senegal, Somalia, and more. Magic Johnson chose Maya to be featured in his 32 Under 32 series. Maya is the winner of the 2013 Black Enterprise Teenpreneur of The Year Award. She is known as the youngest female to do two back-to-back official TEDTalks. The report was created to get an American Museum of Women’s History built in Washington. She has given three TEDTalks and her latest TEDWomen Talk has gone viral worldwide and is one of TED’s official top 15 TEDWomen Talks of all time. In 2016 during the Obama Administration, Maya made history when she was commissioned to produce and animate the opening of the first ever digital report presented to Congress. Maya was featured in Forbes magazine at 10 years old, and has since been featured in Huffington Post, Business Insider, Entrepreneur Magazine, NPR, ESSENCE, The View, CNN, TIME, CBS This Morning with Gayle King, O Magazine, Ebony, The Steve Harvey Show, VICE, Wired, Adobe, and many more. She has been one of the youngest leaders in sustainability and environmental justice for 12 years, starting at the age of just 8 years old. Award, as well as honored at the SCLC Drum Major for Justice Awards (past honorees include Rosa Parks, Maya Angelou, John Lewis and more). She has been hand chosen by Oprah Winfrey as her youngest Supersoul 100 entrepreneur, change maker, and thought leader. Maya was awarded the 2016 Coretta Scott King A.N.G.E.L.
Maya has received a commendation from President Barack Obama for outstanding achievement in environmental stewardship. Maya Penn is a 21 year old phenom, award-winning founder and CEO of eco-fashion brand Maya’s Ideas, keynote speaker, sustainability consultant, 3 time TED Speaker, artist, global activist, animator, filmmaker, social entrepreneur, coder and Simon & Schuster author. He currently lives with his partner on Pawtucket land, also known as Cambridge, MA. They also enjoy singing with their rock bands, yoga, cooking and poetry, for which they won the 2022 Bill Holmes “Winter Variations” Poetry Contest and earned their first poetry Fellowship with the 2022 Writing by Writers Tomales Bay Workshop. in Biology from Dartmouth College and an M.S. He grew up in a cohousing community on Nipmuc land (Acton, MA) and earned a B.A. They are now MA Field and Education Manager as well as administrator for the Massachusetts Youth Climate Coalition, where they empower and co-learn with next generation climate advocates across the state.
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He joined Our Climate in 2018, after 6 years of teaching biology at Revere High School (MA) and Phillips Exeter Academy (NH). Massachusetts Field and Education Manager Eben BeinĮben Bein (he/they) is a high-school-teacher-turned-climate-justice-organizer.
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