⚖️👏😎👍🏼 CELEBRATING INSPIRING TEEN LEADERS — “[A]sk yourself how you can help. We’re in this together, after all.”

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From Teen Vogue: 

So far, the 2020s have proven to be a time of great change, and the past year has been no exception. In 2022, we endured a third year of the COVID-19 pandemic, saw girls and young women fight for gender equality in Iran, watched as Russia escalated its invasion in Ukraine, protested after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, and continued to fight for racial equality and social justice of all kinds.

Amid the hardship, however, has been immense hope — driven particularly by young people. Gen-Z turned out in droves to vote in the midterm elections, hampering the “red wave” predicted by the GOP; young LGBTQ people have fought back against homophobic rules in their cities and states; and groups like the ever-powerful Gen-Z for Change have made waves across activist spaces.

To honor their work and the lasting change young people have made this year, Teen Vogue presents our annual 21 Under 21, a list of changemakers, influencers, activists, and artists who have made a substantial impact in both their communities and the world.

But as we celebrate these young people, we also understand that we shouldn’t have to — young people are too often upheld as the ones who will save the world, but it’s a job that shouldn’t necessarily rest on their shoulders. In our recent cover marking 10 years since the tragedy at Sandy Hook, March for Our Lives co-founder Delaney Tarr wrote about the gun violence crisis in America: “[The youth activist industrial] complex puts the focus on…the individual vs. the system, the youth vs. everyone who should bear responsibility for this crisis. And at what cost?”

So, as you read about and celebrate these extraordinary young people who are, no doubt, doing their part to save the world, ask yourself how you can help. We’re in this together, after all.

Here are Teen Vogue’s 21 Under 21 2022:

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Read all about these talented, courageous, inspiring young people at the above link.

Hannah Cartwright
Hannah Cartwright
Executive Director & Immigration Attorney
Mariposa Legal Foundation
Indianapolis, IN
PHOTO: Mariposa Legal Foundation

Many thanks to the amazing Hannah Cartwright (“Hannah from Indiana”) for sharing this! Hannah is an “outstanding alum” of the Arlington Immigration Court Internship Program and a former EOIR Judicial Law Clerk, selected under the AG’s Honors Program! She’s a “charter member” of the NDPA, and has degrees from Catholic University in both law and social work. 

Hannah currently is Executive Director & Immigration Attorney at the Mariposa Legal Foundation in Indianapolis, IN, a program of COMMON Foundation. Look forward to seeing you on the Immigration Bench in the future, Hannah! Your “practical scholarship,” proven leadership, and real life experience assisting individuals caught up in the morass of today’s immigration bureaucracy are exactly what EOIR needs right now to fulfill the one-time vision of “through teamwork and innovation, being the world’s best administrative tribunals, guaranteeing fairness and due process for all!” ⚖️🗽

🇺🇸 Due Process Forever, & Best Wishes to All!

PWS🎄😎

12-25-22