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CHANGE THE END
Our goals
Change the End is a nonprofit-organized movement determined to push for a societal shift towards a more sustainable lifestyle that will allow for the maintenance of a healthy civilization on a clean planet. Currently, not only individuals contribute to climate change and pollution, but also, even more impactfully, governments and corporations around the world produce significant carbon footprints that are showing a marked effect on everyday modern life, from the raging yearly fires on the American West Coast to the massive Pacific garbage patch to the nearly unbreathable, smog-filled air in industrial China. At Change the End, we believe that true passion shown by the public can help us enact serious political reform. Our mission statement is “to fight climate change via political action, community work, and raising awareness,” but a whole is nothing but the sum of its parts. You can help by signing up for our upcoming events, educating yourself on the issue by reading our political and informative news articles, and shifting to a more sustainable way of living by applying the advice offered on our "Personal Impact" page. Together, we can Defy the Inevitable. We can Change the End.
Mission statement
Change the End is dedicated to fighting climate change via political action, community work, and raising awareness
Founders
Ayla Apsey
Ada Praun-Petrovic
Ada Praun-Petrovic
Every year around September in Ayla’s home of California, smoke fills the air, ash covers the cars, and homes are burnt to the ground. After she herself received an evacuation warning, Ayla decided to make a difference. She has been surrounded by destruction and death her whole life because of global warming, and that needs to change. She
Every year around September in Ayla’s home of California, smoke fills the air, ash covers the cars, and homes are burnt to the ground. After she herself received an evacuation warning, Ayla decided to make a difference. She has been surrounded by destruction and death her whole life because of global warming, and that needs to change. She believes in the power of individual action and hopes to do her utmost to protect our planet and inspire her community to do the same.
contact info: aylaa.climate@gmail.com
Ada Praun-Petrovic
Ada Praun-Petrovic
Ada Praun-Petrovic
A teenager who grew up in California, Ada Praun-Petrovic witnessed firsthand the steadily worsening effects of climate change. From annoying but tolerable heat waves to fires that spread across the entire state and consumed her own friends’ homes, a threat that many wrote off as a distant possibility became a terrifying reality. In 2020,
A teenager who grew up in California, Ada Praun-Petrovic witnessed firsthand the steadily worsening effects of climate change. From annoying but tolerable heat waves to fires that spread across the entire state and consumed her own friends’ homes, a threat that many wrote off as a distant possibility became a terrifying reality. In 2020, after months of anxious nightmares, weighing fears, and a growing dread of an uncertain future, Ada decided to take action and push for significant change to ensure her own generation’s right to live in a clean, non hazardous world.
contact info: adap.climate@gmail.com
Paulina Gicqueau
Avantika Vandanapu
Avantika Vandanapu
Event Coordinator
Having held several leadership positions, Paulina is an officer in her high school’s spirit team and the founder of her own Etsy business. Although she recently discovered her passion for the environment, Paulina deeply cares about bringing awareness and slowing the progression of climate change because there is no Planet B.
contact info: paulinag.climate@gmail.com
Avantika Vandanapu
Avantika Vandanapu
Avantika Vandanapu
Ambassador
Avantika is an actress and dancer currently working as the lead on Disney film 'Spin' who firmly believes in humanity's capacity to prevent the consequences climate change brings. With her work on the Change the End team, she hopes to raise awareness and promote action to fight the climate crisis.
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Laurie Jin
Richard Zhang
Richard Zhang
Research Lead
In addition to her strong interest in politics, Laurie has extensive experience in speech and debate and has worked for online publications. She hopes that by taking immediate action, we can work to make the future better.
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Richard Zhang
Richard Zhang
Richard Zhang
Music Producer
Richard Zhang is a student from California with passions for music and the environment. He hopes to impart a greater sense of urgency through music and dreams of the new possibilities of life in a sustainable world.
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