2009 Young Conservationist of the Year Awardee: Larissa Brown

Larissa, 28, is the founder of the Centre for Sustainability Leadership in Melbourne was named the Young Environmentalist of the Year in 2008.

Larissa Brown has been awarded the Australian Geographic Society Young Conservationist of the Year for 2009.

Larissa, 28, is the founder of the Centre for Sustainability Leadership, Melbourne. Each year the centre partners with the United Nations Environment Program to offer a scholarship-based, eight-month course to young people who want to put into action their visions for environmental sustainability.

Larissa founded the centre four years ago in Melbourne. For her work she has received the British Council award for Communicating Climate Change (2006) and in 2008 was named the Australian Young Environmentalist of the Year.

Larissa is a board member of Environmental Victoria, Victoria’s peak environmental group. Through her work she was selected to represent Asia-Pacific youth at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali in 2007 and in Poland in November 2008.

Larissa is also a judge in the Eureka awards for Youth Leadership on Climate Change and a member of the Ministers Reference Council on Climate Change Adaptation, which advises the state Environment Minister. She also participated in Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s 2020 Summit in 2008.

Larissa Brown is also co-founder for the award-winning environmental show on SYN FM: “Hour of Eco Power” and is studying her Bachelor of Science (ecology) at Melbourne University and a Bachelor of Law at Monash University.

She has worked as a research scientist at the Australian National University, where she studied the extinction event of Australia’s megafauna.

Through all her outstanding environmental work it’s not hard to see why Larissa was awarded the Young Conservationist of the Year Award.

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