Author: Astrid

Hi, my name is Astrid. At age 5, I founded EPIC-Animals, a program that teaches kids about endangered animals and how to take legislative and institutional action to save them. EPIC stands for Every Person Initiate Change, it’s a call to action. We link kids at the epicenter of climate change and the front lines of poaching and deforestation to kids in big cities and at the seats of political power and we find ways to be sure the issues are heard and action is taken. We believe that messages delivered from us, young kids, have an innate magical quality - a grace - that appeals to everyone from industrialists, to politicians. This early engagement also prepares us kids to better manage the planet, which soon will be ours.