Fans didn’t always see Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner 's daughter Violet around the town. But lately, the 19-year-old has been taking a bigger step into the public eye.
Case in point? Violet recently delivered a passionate speech at the United Nations headquarters in New York, in which she spoke about the effects of long COVID in children and called for clean air infrastructure.
"We are told by leaders across the board that we are the future," the Yale student stated in her Sept. 23 address. "But when it comes to the ongoing pandemic, our present is being stolen right in front of our eyes."
Four months before, Violet published an essay in The Yale Global Health Review in which she compared the responses to climate change—detailing her experience with the Los Angeles f