
Empowering youth to lead the restoration of ocean health in one generation
Ocean Leaders demonstrate their commitment to UN Sustainable Development Goal 14—Life Below Water—through concrete action that improves ocean health; SOA Young Ocean Leaders are under 35 years of age.
Become an Ocean Leader to receive project funding and access to capacity-building resources and mentorship
2020 Numbers
64 HUBS
48 MICROGRANTS
165 COUNTRIES
68 WEBINARS
Solutions Hubs
Ocean Solutions Hubs are groups of Ocean Leaders organized by university affiliation, region, or focus area and taking action to promote ocean health and sustainability.
They are united by the common objective to preserve the health of our ocean and provide grassroots leadership in their respective communities.
SOA supports our Hubs through providing programming, mentorship, funding, organizing platforms, and networking.
Ocean Leaders
Our Ocean Youth Leadership Summit
From 2016-2020, SOA has been the youth convener for the Our Ocean Conference. Each year, we sourced the world’s top ocean solutions created by young people from over 50 countries and provided scholarships for them to attend our ocean leaders of ages 18-35 from over 50 countries.
We hope to resume convening high-level events for Young Ocean Leaders in 2021.