Madison Vorva is a Brower Youth Award-winning activist who gained wide attention when she and Rhiannon Tomtishen, then in sixth grade, began a variety of campaigns to convince Girl Scouts USA (GSUSA) to make Girl Scout cookies rainforest-safe (by certifying the palm kernel oil they contain) to save the highly endangered orangutan, a campaign she is continuing as a high school senior as co-founder (with Rhiannon) of Project ORANGS (Orangutans Really Appreciate and Need Girl Scouts), achieving GSUSA to adopt a new palm oil policy, a step in the right direction, and the first policy change in the Girl Scouts’ history driven directly by girls. Madison and Rhiannon have been expanding their rainforest activism and were honored this year by the UN as “North American Forest Heroes” for their work to promote the need for deforestation-free palm oil. (www.projectorangs.wordpress.com)
