Maya Penn

ABOUT MAYA PENN

Keynote speaker, global activist, filmmaker, social entrepreneur, Simon & Schuster author, and the founder and CEO of eco-fashion brand Maya's Ideas. Her Instagram account mayasideas has gained 100,000 followers.

At the age of 8, she became one of the youngest leaders in sustainability and environmental justice. She was featured in Forbes magazine at 10 years old and has since been featured in Huffington Post, Business Insider, Entrepreneur Magazine, The View, CNN, CBS This Morning with Gayle King , O Magazine, Ebony, The Steve Harvey Show, and VICE.

In 2016, she was named to Oprah's SuperSoul 100 list of visionaries and influential leaders and published her book "You Got This!" That same year she was awarded the 2016 Coretta Scott King A.N.G.E.L. Award, as well as honored at the SCLC Drum Major for Justice Awards.

She was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia.

In 2023, she was on the cover of Vogue alongside Billie Eilish .