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PhotoCredit: Sam Tamayo - Project Smile History is filled with youth movements that have sparked change in the world. From the Civil Rights Movement in the United States, to the events at Tiananmen Square, to the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, to modern...

PhotoCredit: ROMAN ODINTSOV.  I read the second edition of The State They’re In by Matthew Lockwood, a book which examines African poverty's causes and politics to propose better aid, trade, and debt policies. It also covers the 2005 Gleneagles G8 and WTO summit...

I recently spent nine months traveling up mountains and along coasts to investigate why and how young people are choosing to farm for a living in Calabria, a southern region of Italy known for having lots of land but increasingly less people and even fewer jobs. I met...

PhotoCredit: Lawrence Baganiah.  In the early years following Rwanda's independence in 1962, the job market was more accessible for high school graduates. This was due to the small population of Rwanda, as noted by Trading Economics, and low literacy rates as shown by...

Last fall, I moved to southern Italy—a big jump for someone who had never left the eastern side of the North American continent. I had graduated in May and was beginning the Fulbright Scholarship to do independent research with a university in Calabria. I moved to the...

Like most young people involved in activism, I have too frequently heard the dreaded phrase that reduced my passion to naiveté: “Just wait until you enter the real world.” Back in my early days of advocacy, I told myself I would never allow my hope to fall victim to...