Meet the Team & Youth Ambassadors

Lana Weidgenant

Plant-Forward Eating Liaison & Youth Ambassador

Country: Brazil and USA

Interests: Sustainable agriculture, Intersectionality

Lana Weidgenant is a youth climate activist who specializes in the impact of food systems on climate change. She is the Youth Vice-Chair of Shifting to Sustainable Consumption for the UN Food Systems Summit 2021 and is the Deputy Partnerships Director of Zero Hour, a youth-led climate justice organization. Lana is also a campaign leader in youth-led initiatives Act4Food Act4Change and Food@COP. Lana is originally from Brazil and has studied Public Health at Johns Hopkins University.

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