Audrey Yu Audrey Yu
Audrey Yu is a senior at Booker T. Washington High School, living with her two mothers in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She hopes to attend a four-year private university in New York City. Her passions are art and history.
Oct 19, 2012
Tess Saperstein Tess Saperstein
Tess Saperstein is a junior at Dreyfoos School of the Arts in Boca Raton, Florida. She enjoys debate, writing for her school newspaper, and Tae Kwon Do.
Oct 19, 2012
Erik Lampmann Erik Lampmann
Erik Lampmann is a rising junior and Boatwright Scholar studying Philosophy, Politics, Economics, and Law (PPEL) and French at the University of Richmond (VA). He co-founded UR’s chapter of the Roosevelt Institute, a progressive think-tank, during his first-year and grew the organization through roundtable discussions, policy writing initiatives, as well as a coalition-based social justice documentary film festival. Erik also serves as interim President of the Student Alliance for Sexual Diversity and as the University’s LGBTQ Student Coordinator. He has published on LGBTQ tax policy and presented on equal justice organizing at the national level. He has also worked as an intern for Equality Pennsylvania and received intersectional campus organizing training from the Young People For (YP4) Fellowship program of the People for the American Way Foundation. More recently, Erik has worked with the OpportunityNation coalition on economic justice and social mobility in the United States. Outside of his activism and academic scholarship, Erik enjoys loose-leaf tea, the “West Wing,” and vegetarian cooking.
Oct 19, 2012
Hillary Abe Hillary Abe
Hillary Abe works for College Horizons, a national non-profit focused on facilitating the higher education of Native American, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian youth. Based in Flagstaff, Arizona, Hillary is also a videographer and an aspiring filmmaker, and you can see more of his work here.
Oct 18, 2012
F. Frederic Fouad F. Frederic Fouad
F. Frederic (Ric) Fouad is a corporate attorney and child welfare advocate. Follow @ricfouad on Twitter.
Oct 17, 2012
Charles North Charles North
Charles North has published ten books of poems, the most recent of which, What It Is Like: New and Selected Poems, headed NPR's list of Best Poetry Books of 2011. He is Poet-in-Residence at Pace University, NYC.
Oct 16, 2012
Kendra Klein Kendra Klein
Kendra Klein is completing her PhD in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at the University of California, Berkeley.
Oct 12, 2012
Sophia Kerby Sophia Kerby
Sophia Kerby is a Special Assistant with Progress 2050 at the Center for American Progress.
Oct 11, 2012
Evan Leatherwood Evan Leatherwood
Evan Leatherwood directs communications for the Bernard L. Schwartz Center for Media, Public Policy, and Education at Fordham University.
Oct 11, 2012
Nushin Rashidian Nushin Rashidian
Nushin Rashidian is co-author of A New Leaf: The End of Cannabis Prohibition and co-founder of the multimedia news site Cannabis Wire.
Oct 11, 2012