Silas Swanson is an undergraduate student studying Earth and Environmental Engineering at Columbia University and a participant in the Wild Center's Youth Climate Program.

Swanson has helped plan Youth Climate Summits and he has served on the Youth Climate Advisory Board and as a representative of the program for numerous conferences, municipal boards, and partner summits.

He has also worked with the National Green Schools Alliance as a student mentor and is trained through Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project.

Most recently, Swanson helped to plan and run an affiliate event at the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco.