Hikaru Wakeel Hayakawa

Hikaru Wakeel Hayakawa is the vice president and a founding director of Climate Cardinals, the world’s largest youth-led climate advocacy organization. He established Climate Cardinals’ signature translation program in partnership with Translators Without Borders and Google Cloud. He also represents Climate Cardinals as part of UNESCO’s Youth Climate Action Steering Committee, and he has spoken about his work for the Smithsonian, the UN Development Programme, the Italian Ministry of the Environment, and the U.S. Interagency Group on Climate Literacy. He is also a full-time student at Williams College, writing a thesis on the global Indigenous rights movement.