Editor’s Note: Jared Doles is a member of the YSA Youth Council and a student at Arizona State University in Tempe , majorin read more
Editor’s Note: Natalie Castellanos is the co-founder of Inspired Generation, a nonprofit youth empowerment organizat read more
Editor's Note: Andrew Leon Hanna and Blair Brettschneider represented the United States at the 7th Annual UNESCO read more
Last weekend, I was in New York for a State Department Panel entitled, "Youth Driving Change: Global Youth and Civic Engagement." The event itself was just as amazing as the story behind it -- one read more
On Saturday, September 24, 2011, I had the privilege to help organize a panel discussion at the United States Mission to the United Nations in NYC, followed by a presentation on the new USAID FWD the Facts campaign that had just been released a few days prior. The panel consisted of civically engaged youth both domestically and globally and was moderated by Under Secretary of Democracy and Global Affairs, Maria Otero. There were well over fifty young people in the audience ranging from college students to professionals. read more