Leilani Munter

Leilani Munter is vegan professional race car driver and environmental activist. Armed with a degree in biology, she uses her race car to share environmental messages about renewable energy and clean energy legislation, among others, with an audience of 75 million race fans in the United States. She has adopted one acre of rainforest for every race she’s run since 2007. Munter was featured in the 2015 documentary Racing Extinction (Mountainfilm 2015) and involved in the Academy Award-winning documentary The Cove (Mountainfilm 2009) through her role as a board member at the Oceanic Preservation Society, a nonprofit that uses film and photography to inspire people to save the oceans. A veteran of both the Indy Pro Series and NASCAR, Munter has many top five finishes to her name. Her motto is “Never underestimate a vegan hippie chick with a race car.”