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Amal Marjnai is a national environmental advocate and eco-fabulous expert dedicated to creating a healthy and sustainable future. Amal is chairperson of the Get Fabulously Green Initiative, where she promotes environmental education for the chic and hip women of the world. She also serves on the board for PeacexPeace, the Women Ambassadors Foundation, and One Child One Computer. She is passionate about keeping toxic chemicals out of consumer products and works with Safe Cosmetics Campaign to educate woman about the toxic touch of cosmetics.

While in college, she organized, educated and led hundreds of young leaders in the Midwestern and Southern states during the 2008 presidential campaign. As an intern, she organized and worked on environmental policies for the White House, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Congressman Hank Johnson, and the American Council on Renewable Energy, Mayor of Chicago’s Richard Daley, and the Sierra Club. From these experiences, she learned how to effectively engage various stakeholders including large corporations like Procter and Gamble, Estée Lauder and Coca-Cola. In 2009, she entered the Miss USA pageant and was the first contestant to wear all recycled fashions and non-toxic makeup. As a result of her “Get Fabulously Green Campaign” platform, she was featured in Discovery Channel’s Planet Green, Rolling Stone Magazine, and the Huffington Post.

With her extensive knowledge and experience, as well as her love for cosmetics and fashion, she believes that being sustainable will never go out of style. Her mission is to inspire people to vote with their dollars, and support genuine sustainability and local vibrant economies through their food, clothes, beauty, and cleaning choices. Furthermore, she wants to educate Americans on the importance of not consuming largely untested and lengthy list of petroleum-derived, genetically modified, animal-tested or animal-based ingredients in their products when they have the choice to be eco-chic and live in a fabulously green life. Besides being featured on environmental media, she also has been a political correspondent for Al Jazeera,BBC, CBS, Manila News, Israel TV, and National Public Radio. During her chillaxing time, she enjoys ballroom dancing, yoga, and martial arts.

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