22 y/o Award-winning Environmental Activist | Animator | 3 TEDTalks | Oprah’s Supersoul 100 | Artist | Sustainability Consultant | Simon & Schuster author | Blerd 📍 ATL  (she/her) 🌎🎨💁🏽‍♀️✨✊🏽

🌟Featured in: Forbes, The View, Grist, Huff Post, ESSENCE, PEOPLE TV, Teen Vogue’s 21 Under 21, NPR, CNN, HLN, Business Insider, NRDC, BBC, Marie Clare Brazil, etc.

🌍 SUSTAINABILITY: 

🌱 I started my own eco-friendly fashion brand in 2008 when I was just 8 years old. Over the 13 years since I started I’ve:

🌎 Received a commendation from President Obama for outstanding achievement in environmental stewardship

🌎 Founded my own nonprofit called Maya’s Ideas 4 The Planet. (mayasideas.com/nonprofit)

🌎 Done sustainability consultation with small start ups, Fortune 500 brands and everything in between.

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🎨 ANIMATION: At 13 years old I premiered clips of two animated series concepts during my TEDWomen Talk in 2013 that went viral worldwide. 

🏆 In 2016 during the Obama Administration, I made history when I was commissioned to produce, animate, and narrate the opening of the first ever digital report presented to Congress. The report was created to get an American Museum of Women’s History built in Washington. 

✍🏽 I’ve created animation for collabs with Hulu, Adobe, GoDaddy etc. Owner of Upenndo! Productions which centers the work of BIPOC and female animators. Learn more: upenndo.com

🎙 I ❤️ talking about: Environmental Activism, Eco-Art, Animation, Filmmaking, Youth Activism, Eco-fashion, Art-ivism, Tech, Climate Solutions, Gen Z Topics, Social  Entrepreneurship, Blerd Culture, Veganism and much much more!

CURRENTLY Partnered with DOVE Chocolate to give 3 women entrepreneurs a $10,000 grant. Check my middle post on IG to learn more! :) 🤎

✉️: mpenn@mayasideas.com