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Yael Stone scored her big break with her role as inmate Lorna Morello in the hit Netflix prison drama Orange Is the New Black. But instead of pursuing a Hollywood career after the series ended in 2019, Stone walked away from it all.

After securing a coveted US green card, Stone’s initial plan was to live and work between the US and Australia. Then the black summer bushfires hit, and the carbon emissions required to jet between the two countries no longer felt right. So the Sydney-born talent quit acting, returning to Australia to join the climate fight and founding Hi Neighbour, a not-for-profit that trains steel and coal workers to work in renewables.