Madison V.

Madison is a founding member of the Project ORANGS Roots & Shoots group in Plymouth, MI. Project ORANGS' mission is to promote the need for rainforest-safe Girl Scout Cookies and deforestation-free sources of palm oil. She is passionate about showing consumers that their everyday purchases have global impacts. Madison enjoys sharing her tools for advocacy success with other young people in her presentation "Change Starts With A Passion." Recently, the United Nations honored Madison as a "North American Forest Hero."

Awards:

Brower Youth Award (2011) 

Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes (2011) 

United Nations North American Forest Heroes Award (2012)

International Young Eco-Hero Award, Third Place (2012)

SeaWorld & Busch Gardens Environmental Excellence Awards (2012)

Media:

Fox and Friends National Television (April 17th, 2008) http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,351583,00.html?KeepThis=true&TB_iframe=

PRI’s the World- Saving the Orangutan (March 11th, 2011) http://www.theworld.org/2011/03/orangutan-endangered/

AOL News- Girl Scouts Take On Iconic Cookies for Sake of Orangutans (March 30th, 2011) http://www.aolnews.com/2011/03/30/girl-scouts-rhiannon-tomtishen-and-madison-vorva-take-on-iconic/

Wall Street Journal-Cookie Crumbles for Girl Scouts, as Teens Launch Palm-Oil Crusade (May 20, 2011)http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704281504576327733659636782.html

ABC News- Two Girl Scouts Say Don’t Buy the Cookies (May 22nd, 2011) http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/girl-scout-cookies-monkey-orangutans-13661629

CBS Early Show (May 24th, 2011) http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/05/24/earlyshow/main20065638.shtml

TIME- The Teenagers Who Are Making Girl Scout Cookies Better for the Planet (May 31st, 2011) http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2074798,00.html

NPR- Two Scouts Want Palm Oil Out of Famous Cookies (July 4th, 2011) http://www.npr.org/2011/07/04/137539757/two-scouts-want-palm-oil-out-of-famous-cookies

MSNBC- Girl Scouts pledge: Limit palm oil in cookies (September 2011)

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/44718393/ns/today-today_news/t/girl-scouts-pledge-limit-palm-oil-use-cookies/#.TozZ1JxSnFZ

Huffington Post: Girl Scouts Win U.N. Award For Efforts To Save Orangutans By Eliminating Palm Oil From Cookies (February 9th, 2012) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/09/girl-scouts-win-award-united-nations_n_1265843.html

NY Times- Palm Oil And Scout Cookies: The Battle Drags on (February 13th, 2012) http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/13/palm-oil-and-scout-cookies-the-battle-drags-on/