Benjamin Von Wong is a Canadian 🏷️#artist, 🏷️#activist, 🏷️#photographer, and motivational 🏷️#speaker known for viral social-media campaigns and advocacy against 📝Ocean Plastics. His installations have included a Guinness World Record-holding piece constructed from 168,000 plastic straws collected over nine months. His work has been covered in Adweek, Forbes, Today, Gizmodo, BBC, Huffington Post, Mashable, ABC, Yahoo, Vice, and UNEP communications.
Von Wong has generated over 100 million organic views around environmental issues such as ocean plastics, fast fashion, and electronic waste, working with Dell, Nike, the Government of Canada, Greenpeace, and Starbucks. He led the most-funded GoFundMe campaign of its kind, raising over US$1 million for Eliza O'Neill. He hosts the Impact Everywhere podcast, with episodes featuring leadership from NASA, the World Toilet Organization, 5 Gyres, and JUST.
Ben and I were introduced by 📝Karen Cheng.