Rowan Blanchard Goes Barefoot While Accepting Youth Humanitarian Award

It’s no surprise Rowan Blanchard just won the Youth Humanitarian Award at the 2017 Children Mending Hearts’ Empathy Rocks event on Sunday (June 11) in Bel Air, Calif.

The 15-year-old actress and activist is such a powerful, inspiring voice and really, it has nothing to do with her age.

PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Rowan Blanchard

Rowan acccepted the award barefoot – which we love – and told the crowd, “Teenagers and kids feel we often get put to the side where we’re thought of as a conversation where adults will get to talk about us but we don’t get to be in the room. I think that’s why something like this is really important, because I get to be in the room.”

Also in attendance were Holland Roden (who took home the Global Humanitarian Award) Carter Jenkins, Georgie Flores, and Lizzy Greene.