About Sophia

Sophia Kianni is an Iranian-American social entrepreneur and activist. She is the founder of Phia, an AI shopping agent with 750k+ downloads that has raised $8M+ from Kleiner Perkins. She also hosts The Burnouts, a business podcast with 600k+ followers and 200+ million views.

Sophia graduated from Stanford University and is the founder of Climate Cardinals, the world’s largest youth-led climate nonprofit, with 16,000 volunteers in 80+ countries. She is the youngest United Nations advisor in US history and served on the EPA’s National Youth Advisory Council.

Sophia is a prolific storyteller and has spoken at universities across the world including Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, Yale, Oxford, Cambridge, and Princeton. 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, Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Awardee, to BBC’s 100 Women, TIME 100 Next, and to Forbes 30 under 30 ☾⭒