Jesse Paris Smith remembers the exact day she became a climate activist. Late on a school night, in a Manhattan deli, frantically skimming the New York Times to finish a last-minute homework assignment in 10th grade.
"I loved nature, so these words like global warming, greenhouse gases, fossil fuels struck me," Smith, 30, says while sitting in a Midtown Manhattan conference room.
This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Inside Jesse Paris Smith’s Bold New Plan to Fight Trump and Save the Planet