Haile Thomas

International Speaker, Wellness Activist, CEO, The HAPPY Org

Haile Thomas is an international speaker, health activist, vegan food & lifestyle content creator, the youngest Certified Integrative Health Coach in the United States, and the founder/CEO of the nonprofit HAPPY (Healthy Active Positive Purposeful Youth). Haile founded HAPPY when she was 12 years old to address the need for free/affordable plant-based nutrition and culinary education in
underserved/ at-risk communities, as well as in schools and through annual summer camps.

Haile has personally engaged over 17,000 kids through her non-profit and 34,000 around the world since beginning her activism in 2010. She was inspired to pursue this passion after her family successfully reversed her fatherʼs type-2 diabetes without the use of medication, only healthy eating and lifestyle choices, and upon learning that kids were also increasingly being diagnosed with conditions like diabetes, heart disease, and obesity. All of Haileʼs programs, projects, and initiatives are geared towards engaging, educating, motivating and empowering young people to make healthy lifestyle choices to live their best life. Haile and her work have been featured on the Today Show, Food Network, CNN, Buzzfeed, MTV, NowThis, VegNews, Brit+Co, Dr. Oz, Teen Vogue, Fortune, O Magazine, and Experience Life Magazine to name a few.