Emily Hunter
26 years old, Canada, Media FrontlinerBio:
Emily Hunter, daughter of Greenpeace’s founding president Robert Hunter, is an advocacy journalist and environmental activist. Over the past eight years, she has battled on the high seas of Antarctica to save whales; was held hostage in her attempt to protect the Galapagos Islands from illegal poaching; put a spotlight on the Canadian tar sands (the second largest oil project next to Saudi Arabia) with a TV documentary she hosted for MTV Canada; and stood on the protest frontlines at the Copenhagen climate summit. Currently, she works as a freelance environmental journalist, occasionally hosting and producing TV documentaries.