In 2020, Sophia set up Climate Cardinals, a thousands-strong group of volunteer translators, trying to make the latest research on climate change available in as many languages as possible. I started Climate Cardinals because it really stemmed from an experience that I had in Middle School, when I took a two-month trip to Iran, which is my parents' home country. While I was there, I realised that my relatives knew very little about climate change and that's there was almost no information available in Farsi, which is their native language. And so, I worked to translate information to Farsi to teach my relatives about climate change and I wanted Climate Cardinals to continue the work that I was doing on a larger scale, which is why we use student volunteers to translate climate information into over 100 languages. Leadership: Who will save the planet? - 3 "First, I started with the basics. We came up with the name and a logo, found a website, and also took legal steps necessary to become an official non-profit. Then, we finally launched using social media, primarily TikTok, to reach hundreds of thousands of students and recruiting thousands of them to sign up to volunteer with us." "I think that young people play a very crucial role in getting people mobilized and out onto the streets. I think that we, as young people, have become very adept at using social media and our platforms to spread messages, as well as having very difficult conversations with people older than us, like our parents and our relatives, in order to make sure that they're informed when it comes to voting and we're getting climate-progressive candidates into office." The biggest advice I would give to other young people, who are interested in getting involved in the climate space, is put yourself out there: reach out to people that you're inspired by. I started out by just DM-ing random climate activists on Instagram and sending them emails, and just asking how I could work with them and how I could contribute to the work that they were doing. And that's how, initially, I got involved in a number of different climate organizations such as Fridays For Future, Extinction Rebellion, Zero Hour." So, reach out: collaborate, work with others and make contact.