Youth Global Leadership Summit

Katie Feeney was amazed when she learned that she made over $1 million on a popular social media platform that is known as Snapchat. She posted on the Spotlight feature, and a week later, she had earned over $200,000 from just the videos she had been uploading to the feature. At first, Feeney was skeptical,…Read More

Myspace was an amazing thing in its time. It was one of the earliest social networks with over 100 million users per month between 2005 and 2008. It was surpassed by Facebook in 2008 because Facebook was more user-friendly. To some, the demise of Myspace was a loss particularly since its successors are less keen…Read More

As a group of community leaders, socially conscious people, and engaged parents, we do what we can to help the younger generation. We know that youth leadership is essential to the world’s future success – that’s why we use this site to highlight the amazing young people we read about. We’d love to hear stories…Read More

Greg Tarr, a 17-year-old teenager from Ireland, was declared the winner in a national science contest after presenting a fake video detection project. This student from the County Cork won the 2021 BT Young Scientist and Technologist Award for developing technology that can easily detect manipulated videos posted online. These videos are so common because…Read More

Daliyah Marie Arana is an 8-year-old that has already pored over more pages than some people do in their whole lives. This one fourth grader has finished over 4,000 books, including both fiction and non-fiction. This has included Michelle Obama’s “Becoming,” one of the most popular books of 2019. Arana remarked that trusting her gut…Read More

A company of teens from Rhondda are set to publish their second book. This publishing is the second for the up-and-coming children’s publishing business, which was founded by teenagers. “Lemoned Publishing” is an educational publishing house from Wales created by Megan Thomas, 18, Katie Burgess, 16, Zoë Gable, 17, and Seren Collier, 16. The small…Read More

Based on many months of polls, youth voter participation is expected to reach historic levels on Tuesday’s election. Enthusiasm in this age group does seem different this cycle. We’re hopeful and anxiously excited by the prospect of historic youth voter turnout and what that might mean for the expression and renewal of democratic institutions. Our…Read More

When people occupy a position of privilege, they often fail to recognize a lack of representation in popular media. Television, film, and even phone emojis inadequately portray millions of individuals. When Rayouf Alhumedhi saw that there were no emojis that looked like her, she wanted to do something about it.   In the fall of 2017, millions of women around…Read More

Shibby de Guzman, 15, does not agree with the president of her country. In fact, many people disagree with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, whose brutal war on drugs has left thousands dead in the island nation of the Philippines. In 2017, he told E.U. politicians to “go to hell” for raising human-rights concerns, later branding Oxford University as a…Read More

February 2018 was a horrible, tragic, crushing, somber, and enraging month for the Parkland, Florida community that lost 17 members—students and teachers—in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting. Undoubtedly, we missed a few emotions for those who must endure the tremendous heartache that comes with losing a loved one—or being reminded of a loved…Read More