Sustainable Development Goal 16: Peace Justice and Strong Institutions

A Blueprint for Climate Revolution Renegade rocker turned nonviolent activist, Srdja Popovic wrote the handbook for nonviolent resistance a text that’ s now taught around

Walking Between Worlds Shilpa studied at Harvard, but she became frustrated with her feeling that getting a Harvard degree was more about succeeding in the

The Girl Who Silenced the World For Five Minutes At age 12, Severn Suzuki traveled with the Environmental Children’s Organization (ECO) to the UN Earth

Planting the Seeds for Peace As the nephew of Mubarak Awad—known to many as the “Gandhi of Palestine” for his nonviolent resistance to Israeli occupation—Sami

Like Kids Everywhere When Samantha Smith was 10 years old, she became very concerned about the threat of nuclear war between the Soviet Union, and

Speaking Truth to Power Maria Ressa, who is originally from the Philippines, wants to bring some of the tactics of climate change and human rights

A Citizen of the World Model, activist, citizen of the world. Leila Ndabirabe, who grew up in Burundi and Belgium, likes to think of herself

Learning as Leadership: Humanizing Business Lara Nuer was 14 years old when her mother, Claire, was diagnosed with cancer and told that she had just

Ripples of Hope Kerry Kennedy learned from her father early on that public service was “just really what you wanted to do because that was

Generation Waking Up Joshua Gorman is an emerging leader in the field of youth advocacy. At George Mason University, he created a selfdesigned major to

Get Into Good Trouble! U.S. Congressman John Lewis urged people to get into what he called “good trouble, necessary trouble.” As a child in Alabama,

The Peace Corps in Malawi As a Peace Corps volunteer, Jill Bhowmik taught English in Malawi; and in the process she inspired countless young people.

An Indigenous Leader Evon Peter grew up in a village nearly 100 miles above the Arctic Circle. Despite being surrounded by natural beauty, Evon faced

An Opportunity to Give Back – via Zoom!! Demi had imagined that her 17th birthday would be quite different from what it turned out to

Raising Our Voice for Change One of the founders of the Women’s March, Carmen Perez, rose to national fame in 2017. But her path to

A Voice for the Voiceless At the age of 16, Betsabe Reyna was offered the opportunity to travel to Mexico with a few other kids

We Must Be the Change We Want to See in The World Born and brought up in South Africa, Arun Gandhi faced a lot of

How Can I Help? When Josue Cruz was 14, he was invited to serve as a youth delegate to a Youth Leadership Summit being held

Changemaking from the Nation’s Capital Jerome Foster grew up near our nation’s capital. “I always understood what BLM (Black Lives Matter), women’s rights, and other