Ben here, back with another edition of WYD (What You’re Doing)! If you’re just joining us, WYD is our weekly community newsletter covering what DoSomething members (like you!) are doing to transform your communities. Read on to meet a 16-year-old law student, a fashionable 19-year-old environmentalist, and our writing intern, Jackie. Let’s Do This!
- Ben, Editor-in-chief
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Meet Haley, the 16-Year-Old Law Student and Advocate for Accessible Education
Like lots of teenagers, Haley Taylor Schlitz loves Fortnite and Black Panther. Unlike most teenagers, she graduated high school at 13, finished college at 16, and is headed off to law school this fall. Her plan after practicing law: Become a professor and start a school.
“Children of color in our education system...don’t have [equal] opportunity,” the DoSomething member says. “[I want to] change the public school system.”
Haley recently took to Twitter to advocate for representation and equality. She tweeted to support DoSomething’s #RedefineBlack campaign, which successfully compelled Dictionary.com to update its definition of “Black.”
Join Haley and thousands of DoSomething members telling other dictionaries to update their definitions too.
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David and friends wore matching windbreakers and picked up 120 pieces of trash. In other words, sustainability but make it fashion.
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- You’re invited... to start a DoSomething Club at your school!
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Live from New York... we captured the sights and sounds of the US Women’s National Team parade!
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Support the US Women’s National Team... by advocating for pay equality.
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Our writing intern, Jackie... made this very bizarre, very Canadian mood board of our interns.
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Behind the scenes at DoSomething HQ… the DoSomething interns hosted young South African scholars from the Impact Young Lives foundation.
- My heroes today... are these 7 young Indigenous activists fighting for their communities.
- I’m obsessed with... Storm Reid, who showed love to our #RedefineBlack campaign.
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