Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Sep 12, 2023Cameron Samuels, a Jewish college student and book-access activist, discusses the impact of their Texas high school's challenge to "Maus" at a Senate hearing on book bans.
Washington Jewish Week
Aug 31, 2023McLean resident Ben Joel is passionate about learning and teaching. The 18-year-old saw how people’s education deteriorated during the COVID pandemic and and co-founded Intutorly, an online tutoring program used globally.
ARL Now
Jul 31, 2023Local activist Anabelle Lombard was awarded $36,000 for her leadership work with Generation Ratify, a youth organization aiming to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment.
St. Louis Jewish Light
Jul 26, 2023Dani Wasserman, 17, founded InvestNow Clubs at her high school when she was a freshman. The goal is to increase financial literacy at the high school level, especially for traditionally marginalized groups in an effort to achieve better economic equality.
CBS News New York
Jul 24, 2023CBS New York spoke with the local winners, 17-year-old Sydney Hankin, who started Securing Safe Food, and 15-year-old Steven Hoffen, who founded Growing Peace.
Santa Barbara Independent
Jul 22, 2023If there are Spanish-speakers learning English and English-speakers learning Spanish, why not pair them together? That was the “obvious solution” that occurred to Dos Pueblos High School student Romy Greenwald, who noticed that the English learners felt isolated in their separate classes and marginalized from the English-speaking students.
US Chess Federation
Jul 20, 2023This month's guest is Henry Lien (LEAN), a 17-year-old from the Bay Area of California who started a free afterschool chess program for students living in low-income areas. Henry was selected for the 2023 Diller Teen Tikkun Olam Awards – a national prize recognizing teen leaders who are changing the world.
Los Angeles Sentinel
Jul 20, 2023The story of Meaza Light-Orr, 17, is one like no other. From Ethiopia to Los Angeles and back, Light-Orr has made a tremendous impact in her native village of Kololo, after raising more than $120,000 to build and operate a middle school through her initiative Kids for Kololo.