Jerome Foster II

When Foster was 14 years old, he founded an immersive technology organisation, TAU VR, which built virtual reality environments regarding American History, Climate Change, and Latin American Immigration to the United States, and more. In September 2017, TAU VR was featured on XQ Super School Live,[16] which was aired on ABC, CBS, NBC, and FOX which depicted his story of placing 3rd at the World Series of Entrepreneurship.[16]

Foster, in November 2017, founded The Climate Reporter, an international youth-led climate-focused news outlet that reports.[17][18]

As a part of Greta Thunberg's School Strike for Climate protest, Foster held weekly climate strikes in front of the White House in Lafayette Square.[19][20] On September 13, 2019, Thunberg as a part of her trans-American voyage to COP 25 in Santiago, Chile joined Foster's White House climate strikes which drew thousands to the site.[21][22][23] Through organizing these climate strikes, Foster met Jane Fonda and has gone on to collaborate with Fonda on her Fire Drill Fridays.[24]

Foster founded OneMillionOfUs in early 2019.[25][26][27] Which is an international non-profit youth voting and advocacy organization. It aims to "educate, empower and mobilise a movement of young people to be civically active and engage on the local and global stage through their intersectional youth-focused civic partnerships",[28] OneMillionOfUs has built a large coalition that will provide young people with the tools they need to spur systemic change in their communities, school buildings and political offices.[29] This organization also created a "Uniting Youth Coalition"[30] representing 5 youth social movements: gun violence, climate change, immigration reform, gender equality, and racial equality to have a space on both the local and international level to coordinate events and campaigns between movements.[31]

In July 2022, Foster and his partner, Elijah McKenzie-Jackson, co-authored a letter to the UNFCCC[32] to call on the United Nations to move COP27 climate summit[33] due to Egypt's "LGBTQ+ torture, woman slaughter, and civil rights suppression" he says[34] after they started looking into logistics of traveling to Sharm El-Sheikh.[35] As Foster is an openly-public bisexual figure,[36] he and his partner "might be targeted"[34] according to Guardian News.

The letter, which was directed towards UNFCCC Executive-Secretary, Patricia Espinosa,[37] was signed by prominent activists such as Nadya Tolokonnikova, Ahmed Alaa, and Eric Njuguna. The couple are calling the UNFCCC non-action a betrayal of the community and “inherent discrimination.”[38] Foster emphasized that, “there are better options of countries in Africa that will still include African voices. People shouldn’t be cannon fodder for the climate movement. Cop27 will fail if it’s in Egypt because critical voices will be left out.”[39]

At 15 years old, Foster became the sole student representative serving on the District of Columbia State Board of Education High School Graduation Requirements Task Force, working to modernize high school graduation requirements starting with the class of 2030 across the District.[40]

At 16 years old, Foster applied to be an intern for U.S. Representative John Lewis, as described in an interview in late 2020.[41] On Fridays during his internship, he held weekly climate rallies at the front gates of the White House as a part of Greta Thunberg's Fridays For Future movement to advocate for the passage of the Climate Change Education Act which would add environmental education as a core subject in all American schools and provide funding for colleges to further research into the climate crisis.[42]

On March 29, 2021, the White House announced that Foster would serve as an advisor on the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council, providing recommendations on environmental injustice.[43][15][44]