Jamie Margolin
Youth to Power
Your Voice and How to Use It
Hachette Book Group USA, 2020
What's inside?
Speaking truth to power is how kids can change the world for the better.
Recommendation
In her bold, inspiring guidebook, youth activist Jamie Margolin provides practical advice on how to be an agent of change. She explains the difficulties of being heard, the importance of knowing how to frame an issue to get results,the need to keep your ego out of the way and the value of – in the late Rep. John Lewis’s words – getting into “good trouble.” If you decide to advocate for a cause, Margolin can help you make it happen. Greta Thunberg’s foreword adds to her argument for young people to step forward.
Summary
About the Author
Zero Hour co-founder Jamie Margolin, 19, is a Colombian-American community organizer, activist, author and public speaker. In 2018, she led the “Youth Climate Marches” in Washington, DC and more than 25 other cities globally. She is now in her first year of university studying film and television. Greta Thunberg, who wrote the foreword, says Margolin's Zero Hour marches inspired her and her School Strike for Climate/Fridays for Future movement.
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