Varshini Prakash

Varshini Prakash is the co-founder and executive director of Sunrise, a movement of young people working to stop climate change and create millions of good jobs in the process through the Green New Deal. She has been a leading voice for young Americans, including helping to lead a mass demonstration for the Green New Deal with Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez that went viral and put the climate crisis at the top of the political agenda for the 2020 U.S. presidential election.