Sophia Kianni
💌 Get in touch: contact@sophiakianni.com Sophia Kianni is an Iranian-American entrepreneur. She is the founder of Phia, an AI shopping agent backed by Kleiner Perkins. She hosts The Burnouts, one of the fastest growing female business podcasts. She graduated from Stanford University and is the founder of Climate Cardinals, the world’s largest youth-led climate nonprofit. She is the youngest United Nations advisor in US history. Sophia has amassed a following of over 300,000 across social media platforms and her work has been profiled by The New York Times, CNN, Vogue, Business Insider, BBC, NPR, ELLE, The Guardian, NBC, and even on the front page of The Washington Post. She has also authored opinion pieces for outlets such as TIME Magazine, MTV News, Cosmopolitan, Teen Vogue, and Yale Climate Connections. Sophia is a prolific storyteller and has spoken at universities across the world including Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, MIT, Oxford, Cambridge, and Princeton. She has sat on boards and advisory councils for The New York Times, World Economic Forum, Ashoka, American Lung Association, Reform Alliance, Lady Gaga's Born This Way Foundation, and EPA. She won the TED global idea competition and her debut TED Talk has 2+ million views. She has been named VICE Media's youngest Human of the Year, a Gloria Steinem fellow, a Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Awardee, a National Geographic Young Explorer, among BBC’s 100 Women, TIME 100 Next, and to Forbes 30 under 30.
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