Shreya Sudarshana, a freshman at Sacramento City College, talks about her Indian heritage and discusses the problem of affluent parts of India being situated adjacent to impoverished areas.
“This project is really amazing because we are not only covering a global issue, but we are also able to take the individual superpowers and perspectives of every 10th grader and create something great from it,” said Christina Nessim, 15.
When we read an article about a refugee’s journey, we don’t get the same impression as when we actually talk to the person who took the steps to flee his country for another place.
Julia Nam, of Davis Senior High School in Davis, California, describes growing up in South Korea. Nam says she thinks the experience has made communicating in English at school more difficult.
Youth videographers at Media Enterprise Alliance in Oakland created this video in response to Republican Donald J. Trump's victory in the U.S. presidential election on Nov. 8.
As high school and college students took to the streets to protest the results of Tuesday's U.S. presidential election, Stagg High School Phillicity Uriarte-Jones reflects on her commitment to social change. Uriarte-Jones says Donald Trump's victory will only make her work harder for what she wants.
"[B]ecause in the end, the thing that is going to help us get through this is us supporting one another and being ourselves more than we have before and being proud to just not be a part of that culture of hatred."