Jamie Margolin

Jamie Sarai Margolin is an organizer, activist, author, artist, and filmmaker. She graduated in the class of 2024 at NYU Tisch Film & TV. She is a founder of the international youth climate justice movement called Zero Hour that led the "Youth Climate Marches" in Washington, DC and 25+ cities around the world during the summer of 2018. Zero Hour has over 200+ chapters worldwide and has been a leading organization in the climate movement. She is the author of a book called "Youth To Power: Your Voice and How To Use It,” which has been translated in many languages and sold all over the world. The book serves as a guide to organizing and activism, and is a recipient of the 2020 Gold Medal Nautilus Book Award for YA nonfiction.

Margolin is also a plaintiff in the Our Children's Trust Youth v. Gov Washington state lawsuit, Aji P. vs. State of Washington. She is the creator and writer/director of “Pelea,” a new independent animated short film centering on environmental justice themes in Latin America.

Margolin is one of Teen Vogue’s “21 Under 21” girls changing the world in 2018, One of People Magazine's 25 women changing the world in 2018, Fuse TV’s Latina Trailblazer of 2018, one of The Today Show’s 18 under 18 Groundbreakers of 2019, MTV EMA Generation Change winner of 2019, one of the BBC's 100 most influential women of 2019, and one of GLAAD’s 20 under 20 LGBTQ+ people changing the world. She is on the OUT 100 list of 2020.