Jennifer Garner played the cool mom, treating her eldest child, Violet, and some friends to coffee in Los Angeles on Sunday morning. 

The mother and daughter pair appear to have moved past any disagreements following an essay Violet, 19, composed about the Pacific Palisades fires and climate change during her time at Yale last semester. 

Garner, 53, seemed to fit in right in with her young guests, wearing a  white and gold striped golf shirt with a pair of high waist white pants.

The Family Switch star kept her footwear casual, opting for a pair of brown leather sandals. 

Garner’s long chestnut locks were styled straight and she wore natural looking makeup with a neutral red lip.  

The Elektra star wore dark square framed sunglasses and carried a cup of coffee and a green notebook.

Jennifer Garner, 52, looked casually chic on Sunday in Los Angeles, wearing a white and gold striped golf shirt with a pair of high waist white pants

Violet, who bears a striking resemblance to her mother, appeared at ease in a white cotton T-shirt matched with ankle-length straight-leg jeans featuring square pockets on the front.

The university student stepped out in black and white sneakers. 

Her long, dark blonde hair was styled straight and she appeared to be wearing minimal makeup beneath her square framed glasses. 

The teen carried a white furry purse with a brown strap and was seen carrying a white medical mask as well. 

In July 2024, Violet promoted mask-wearing in front of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, following her experience with a ‘post-viral condition in 2019.’

‘I’m okay now, but I saw firsthand that medicine does not always have answers to the consequences of even minor viruses,’ she told the lawmakers.

‘The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown that into sharp relief. One in 10 infections lead to long Covid, which is a devastating neurological cardiovascular illness that can take away people’s ability to work, move, see, and even think.’ 

She also pointed out that those hardest hit by the virus were ‘communities of color, disabled people, elderly people, trans people, anyone in a public-facing essential job.’ 

The Family Switch star was treating her daughter Violet, 19, and some friends to coffee 

Violet, 19, who is a near carbon-copy of her mother, looked relaxed wearing a white cotton T-shirt with a pair of ankle length straight leg jeans with square pockets on the front

The teen continued her public advocacy when an essay she turned into her university’s Global Health Review which was titled A Chronically Ill Earth: COVID Organizing as a Model Climate Response in Los Angeles.

She began the paper with the attention catching, ‘I spent the January fires in Los Angeles arguing with my mother in a hotel room. She was shell-shocked, astonished at the scale of destruction in the neighborhood where she raised myself and my siblings.’ 

The essay continued to compare climate change to the global Covid-19 pandemic, arguing that ‘our bewildered response to crises like the LA fires tell us we may still be accustomed to addressing the climate crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic: as a question of how fast we can get back around to pretending like the problem is gone.’

Neither Garner, nor Violet’s dad Ben Affleck, 52, has commented on the paper. 

Violet got a lot of attention in May after an essay about climate change and Garner’s understanding of the deadly LA fires she wrote at Yale was published;  Pictured in Washington, DC in December 2022 

The teen has also advocated for continuing to wear medical masks in public after she ‘contracted a post-viral condition in 2019’;  Pictured in Los Angeles in May 2024

Last year during an interview with People, Garner got candid about raising her three kids and shared that she found it ‘hard’ to let them make their own decisions as they get older.

‘I’m just watching them in this new phase of life where they’re figuring out who they’re going to be and what they’re going to study,’ she explained.

‘And I’m so interested in them. All the time, I’m interested in everything about them.’

The actress later admitted to the outlet, ‘I have a really hard time not saying, “This is what I see you as,” and “I think you should.” I really have to sit on my hand.’