Jessica Rimington is one of the founding members of the Youth Leadership Council. While attending the 2002 Children’s Earth Summit in South Africa, she organized a group of young people to create 1,000 origami peace cranes. The group carefully folded the cranes from international newsprint and on each crane wrote a commitment to the world that they pledged to fulfill. They then presented the cranes to the United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan and his wife Nane. It is through youth such as Jessica that Dr. Jane is able to maintain hope for a healthier world for all animals and humans, for it is the young leaders who will continue the work of Dr. Jane and her reason for hope far into the future.