Maya Penn

Maya Penn is a 23 year old award-winning CEO, eco-designer, animator, filmmaker, Oprah's youngest Super Soul 100 change makers, and author of You Got This! (Published by Simon & Schuster). She is the CEO of Maya's Ideas, a successful eco-friendly apparel company she started in 2008 at 8 years old.

She has been featured in countless publications such as Forbes, Huffington Post, Seventeen Magazine, Cosmopolitan, The View, NPR,CNN, TIME, Essence Magazine, CBS This Morning with Gayle King, O Magazine, The Steve Harvey Show, Entrepreneur Magazine, Ebony, Black Enterprise, The Atlanta Journal Constitution, and many, many more. Maya has given three TEDTalks and her latest TEDWomen Talk has gone viral worldwide and with almost 2 million views and growing. She is known as the youngest female to do two back-to-back official TEDTalks.

Magic Johnson chose Maya to be featured in his 32 Under 32 article series. Maya has received a commendation from President Barack Obama for outstanding achievement in environmental stewardship. In 2016 Maya created the animation and narration for the opening of a report that was part of the first ever digital report presented to Congress. The report was created to get a Women's History Museum built in Washington.