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Erin Schrode is a young ecoRenaissance woman. As the "face of the new green generation," the co-founder and spokeswoman of Turning Green promotes global sustainability, youth leadership, environmental education, and conscious lifestyle choices. After working in disaster response in Haiti, she founded and launched The Schoolbag, a youth education project to provide materials…

Erin Schrode is a young ecoRenaissance woman. As the "face of the new green generation," the co-founder and spokeswoman of Turning Green promotes global sustainability, youth leadership, environmental education, and conscious lifestyle choices. After working in disaster response in Haiti, she founded and launched The Schoolbag, a youth education project to provide materials for students in need, as well as initiate active citizenry and environmental stewardship.

A "sustainability prodigy," Erin shares her knowledge as aneco expert on television and the radio, in books, newspapers, magazines, websites, podcasts, and her own ecoRenaissance blog and twitter feed. She has been featured in the New York Times, Vanity Fair Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, New York Post, Seventeen Magazine, Teen Vogue, National Geographic; on ABC, NBC, BBC, FOX, MTV, Discovery Channel, E!, CurrentTV, Sundance Channel; on The Huffington Post, AOL, GOOD, Slate; in books Girls Gone Green, Green Kids, Sage Families, Not Just a Pretty Face; and write columns for elephant journal and ecofabulous, previously for the Marin Independent Journal and Green Living Online; as well as numerous other publications and media outlets.

"One of the leading young green movers in the country," Erin served as United States' delegate at the inaugural One Young World Summit in London, addressed senior executives from fifty of the most influential global companies in a World 50 forum and was honored with the Diller Teen Tikkun Olam Award for outstanding leadership in community service and commitment to improving the world. For her ongoing work in Haiti, the "young green-inspired heroine" was recently awarded the first Sisterhood Support Grant from Euro RSCG Worldwide PR. She is in her second year as a DEANS Scholar at New York University - currently studying abroad in the Middle East, after a term in West Africa - majoring in Cross-Cultural Diplomacy and Communications. Having visited over forty countries, Erin has developed a keen global perspective and hopes to inspire her peers to take action and make the world a more sustainable and just place for future generations. For more on Erin: www.erinschrode.com or www.twitter.com/erinschrode