By Alan Gomez and Pamela Rentz With the world gripped by a global pandemic and protests over police brutality raging across the U.S., young adults and teenagers played a significant role in the activism work that defined 2020. Generation Z and Millenials were heavily involved in protests, marches, social media campaigns and the November elections. A majority of people who attended Black Lives Matter protests in 2020 were under the age of 30 and young Americans turned out for

By Angely Pena Agramonte Teens today are under a lot of stress: the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently reported that the proportion of young people visiting an emergency department due to a mental health crisis climbed by 31 percent during the six months between April and October of 2020. And that’s amidst a global pandemic that has left many people afraid to seek treatment, especially in a hospital. It’s impossible to tell how many other young people were in

By Sophia Garcia Generation Z - born roughly between the mid 1990s and early 2010s - has already made a name for itself due to its willingness to advocate for myriad social causes, from LGBTQ+ rights, abortion rights, and immigration to environmental consciousness. This group of young people has also taken on the issue of gun control following a series of school shootings in recent years, most notably at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland in 2018. “(We) go all o