Violet Affleck, the 19-year-old daughter of Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner, took the stage at the United Nations this week, calling for urgent action on clean air, pandemic protections, and broader social justice issues.
Speaking at the “Healthy Indoor Air: A Global Call to Action” event in New York, the Yale freshman framed her generation as one already living with the failures of global leadership.
“I represent a generation that in many ways already knows how we’ve been failed,” she said. “We are no strangers to protesting injustice. This summer alone has seen youth uprisings in Nepal, Angola, and Indonesia, to say nothing of ongoing youth mobilization worldwide for a free Palestine. And wherever we live, we’ve grown up in the shadow of the climate crisis with the threats, sacrifices, and scarcities that [it] will entail, looming over us.”
