Source: http://familyfed.org/news-story/ysp-youth-heroes-awards-recognizes-leaders-of-today-69571/ Not all heroes wear capes. Two young activists who are making a tremendous impact domestically and internationally were recently awarded the 2020 Youth Heroes’ Award by Youth and Students for Peace (YSP) USA. Kiangana Dialungana (also known as Makaya Revell), from Pennsylvania, and Tarina Kaur Ahuja, from Virginia, were both recognized for their…
Source: https://yspusa.org/usa-snergy-2020 On December 26, 2020 Youth and Students for Peace USA (YSP) held a National S!NERGY event online in partnership with the Collegiate Association for the Research of Principles (CARP). Three young people presented their ideas and project proposals to a panel of guest judges, along with an audience watching the livestream. PRESENTERS …
Harvard freshman Tarina Ahuja was featured on CBS This Morning for co-founding The Greater Good Initiative, a think tank dedicated to bringing empathy to public policy…View her segment here.
Source: https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2020/05/her-campus-pulls-off-epic-virtual-graduation “THE CLASS OF 2020 is the class of resilience, the class of changemakers,” said Her Campus founders Stephanie Kaplan Lewis ’10, Annie Wang ’10, and Windsor Hanger Western ’10 as they introduced their live virtual graduation last Friday for any young woman finishing high school, college, or graduate programs. After winning the i3 Innovation…
Source: https://indianexpress.com/article/world/black-lives-matter-south-asian-americans-come-to-terms-with-own-anti-blackness-6465153/ Crucially, the young generation that is unafraid to introspect within and initiate difficult conversations is increasingly putting its weight behind anti-black racism and casteism within. Black Lives Matter protests refuse to die down as the US remains wrapped up in discussions of structural racism, white supremacy and police abolition. Most importantly, conversations have…