Objective
Benjamin Von Wong is a Canadian #artist, #activist, #photographer, motivational #speaker, and advocate against Ocean Plastics. He has also created several viral social media campaigns, including the most funded GoFundMe campaign which raised over US$1M for Eliza O'Neill. [1] Von Wong has generated over 100M organic views to resolve pressing world issues like ocean plastics, fast fashion, and electronic waste; working with Dell, Nike, the Government of Canada, Greenpeace, and Starbucks. [2]
He has been featured in Adweek, Forbes, Today, Gizmodo, BBC, Huffington Post, Mashable, Lifehacker, ABC, Yahoo, Vice, UNEP, and Guinness World Records (he holds the Guinness World Record made from 168,000 plastic straws collected over 9 months). Von Wong is also the host of the “Impact Everywhere” podcasts to help you find positive impact in unexpected places, featuring episodes with leadership from NASA, the World Toilet Organization, 5 Gyres, and JUST. [2]
He is a viral creative who uses his engineering and artistic backgrounds to create imagery that rallies people around environmental and social causes to make them digestible and accessible. His mission to spread awareness and inspire action is clearly seen through his work, embodying what it means to engage in activism through art. Some of his previous projects have focused on plastic microfibers released in washing machines, electronic waste, and marine plastic pollution. [3]
Subjective
Ben and I were introduced by Karen Cheng
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Contexts
#vonwong (this memo is the Root Memo)
Introduced by #karen-cheng (See: Karen Cheng)
#went-viral
#myth-maker