It’s no surprise that young people who grew up in a rapidly evolving and ever-changing digital landscape are successfully leveraging emerging tools and platforms to not only build movements and organize action, but to create real change in the world. Not simply re-packaging old approaches in a “digital skin,” these activists are re-inventing the ways that action happens, and writing their own original playbooks for bringing about impact on issues about which they are passionate. What can established organizations and their leaders learn from these social innovators?
In this session, Geoff Corey, senior manager of digital campaign strategy at Advocates for Youth, will lead a discussion with several young activists who are working on an array of issue areas. This panel discussion will include LaKia Williams, digital organizer at SisterSong, Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective; Nour Abdelwahab, an organizer and Muslim Youth Council member, Advocates for Youth; and Đinh Thị Lan Anh, program assistant at the Gender Relations Center at the University of Notre Dame.