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Hello, everyone. Hi. Good evening. Thank you for joining us today. We are committed to developing young people to be informed and active citizens to create a just and equitable world. Named after two great civic leaders, we believe in the power of youth voice, like the amazing voices that are here with us today. And we believe in helping young people to create civic action to improve the world. Im going to turn it over to a great colleague and friend nicole from Facebook Education team. [ applause ] hi, everyone. My name is nicole and i work on facebooks Education Team focused on youth leadership. Our mission is to provide young people with the support, the tools and the resources they need to drive positive changes in their communities and in their schools. We are thrilled to continue this partnership to elevate youth voices around the country and super excited to hear t ....
Raising your voice is to help shape your communities. Thank you so much. We are thrilled to be here. I will turn it over to step. Stef. [applause] i mentioned the amazing young people that are here today. My name is stephanie cruz, i am on the board of mikva challenge. It is exceptionally exciting to hear the stories we are going to hear. These young people represent 25,000 young people who have participated in the soap box challenge. We are very lucky to hear these amazing stories. I am going to turn over to get it kicked off. [applause] thank you both so much. Myself and my colleague will be emceeing today, and we are thrilled to hear these speeches of brave young people who will speak out on the issues that matter to them that they want to see change that are affecting young people around the country and the world. I wont be speaking so much because we want to center their voices and their wisdom and their perspective. So without further ado, im , going to call our first speaker, mo ....
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