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The OpEd Project’s mission is to increase the range of voices and quality of ideas we hear in the world. We envision a world where the best ideas – regardless of where they come from – will have a chance to be heard, and to shape society and the world.
The Youth Narrating Our World (YNOW) Emerging Thought Leaders initiative was created by The OpEd Project in collaboration with McCormick’s Why News Matters initiative, to increase the public presence and impact of young people in media thought leadership, civic engagement and ultimately in strengthening the democracy. Read about the 2013-14 Youth Narrating Our World project here .
It is time for video game writers to “get real about the stories and start writing for people like all of us,” writes Jacara Davis, a Chicago teen who is part of The OpEd’s Project Youth Narrating Our World initiative.
Now that spring is here, Youth Narrating Our World writer Amber Fang wants all neighborhoods to have a community garden as a “comprehensive solution to food deserts.”
The media tells people “that it is okay to bully brunettes with glasses and good grades,” writes Aaliyah Smith of Youth Narrating Our World. She knows she has a choice of what to watch on TV, but that’s not the whole picture.
A new study shows that nearly half of the children in the U.S. face trauma growing up. Youth Narrating Our World writer Amber Fang fits into this category but she’s came out the other side strong and determined, she writes, thanks to support from her grandparents.
"Immigrating to another place doesn’t necessarily lead a person to a better life," writes Youth Narrating Our World contributor Jia Ling Guan. Guan applauds President Obama’s proposal to reform immigration and suggests how small changes to key elements, including translation services and job placement, would make a big difference.
Nearly a third of high school dropout happen before 10th grade. Even though she admits she’d rather be on her couch than in a classroom, Aaliyah Smith, a writer with Youth Narrating Our World, will not be one of those teens.
When the comedian Artie Langes uses sexism to get laughs he enters dangerous territory to this Youth Narrating Our World writer.
Nearly 90 percent of girls have been street harassed by the time they are 19 years old, according to an informal survey by the advocacy group Stop Street Harassment. To Youth Narrating Our World writer Raven Robles that statistic is too high and has changed how she feels in her Chicago neighborhood.
As a black girl I’m way more interested in how mothers, grandmothers and sisters think we should respond to the protests, anger and distrust in Ferguson, Mo., after the killing of Michael Brown.