Aminta Permpoonwiwat

Aminta Permpoonwiwat is an 18 year old Thai sustainability advocate and Chancellor’s Scholar at Vanderbilt University. As the winner of the fifth Human Rights Youth Challenge and the Youth Advisor to the Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation, she has facilitated events at the 51st session of the UN Human Rights Council.

She is the Project Manager and Founder of Youth Mentorship Project, a youth organisation dedicated to teaching students from vulnerable groups the values of sustainability and resilience through STEAM subjects. Driven by her interest in the intersection between quality education, inequality, and climate change, Aminta has engaged over 800 young students across the country to address these issues.

Amplifying her work at various events, including the ECOSOC Youth Forum 2023, the UN Youth4Climate: Driving Ambition Pre-COP26 and Youth4Climate: Powering Action UNGA, Aminta has represented the voice of Thai youth on the international stage. She is also part of the SDGs Youth Panel for the UN in Thailand and hopes to build an inclusive society where everyone can have access to their human rights, regardless of their gender, race or ethnicity.

One action you’d like people to do to help your work

“There's no single, correct way to make the world better and more sustainable. Collective action is needed from everyone. Just change ONE thing from your daily routine. Simple? Yes, but millions of small things done simultaneously could lead to something much bigger. There’s nothing a hivemind of eight billion people can’t achieve if we share the same ambition.”

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