Melody Gomez works with Square Peg Youth Empowerment. Melody asks how often do we consider that we are projecting expectations on our youth, and are asking them for blind compliance with explicit interference. Are we asking of our youth what we wouldn’t want for ourselves? Maybe the Panacea to global ills is as simple as recognizing that our youth are rookie global citizens, and we should ask them take a bigger role in their world. Melody asks are we the role models with whom our youth want to participate?
PechaKucha Presentation

Melody Gomez
VIEW SIMILAR PRESENTATIONS

Indonesian Youth Conference
BY ALANDA KARIZA
@ VOL 7
ON NOV 03, 2010
Indonesian Youth Conference (IYC) is an activity planned and organized by youth, and aimed at gathering Indonesia youth to share problems and ideas, enhance their awareness of current issues, and convince the public that youth voices must be heard and taken seriously. IYC consists of two activities that are intertwined with each other: 1. A forum that invites 33 young people aged 15 to 21 years from all over Indonesia to represent their respective provinces at this event. They are expected to be actively involved in communities and networks, respectively, are determined to make a change towards a better Indonesia, and want to start a movement or project in their community. 2. A festival, made up of organized seminars and workshops that can be visited by anyone by buying tickets. Seminar sessions and workshops at the festival are more general, covering a wide range of issues. It invites experts, professionals, government officials, and youth achievement to talk about law and governance, politics, culture, creative industries, information technology, environment, education, health, activism, social entrepreneurship, as well as journalism and media. (In Indonesian)

The LongStory: an Online Dating Game for Youth
BY MIRIAM VERBURG
@ VOL 29
ON APR 01, 2014
Miriam Verburg is the producer of LongStory, one of the first LGBTQ friendly dating games made specifically for young people. She discusses why she decided to devote two years of her life to producing a dating game for kids and shows some of the interesting things she learned along the way about creating games about feelings.
"Presentation of the Day" on July 9, 2014.

A Space for Youth to Explore and Create
BY PATRICIA TSOIASUE
@ VOL 3
ON SEP 17, 2015
“There’s ridiculous things that teenagers can come up with.”
Long Beach's Patricia Tsoiasue shares about Makersville's work supporting the discovery and creative process of young makers.

The Links between Poetry and Youth Work
BY SOPHIE REA
@ VOL 28
ON AUG 25, 2016
Sophie Rea shares the Links between Poetry and Youth Work
Youth in Today's Context
BY RAJPAL SINGH RATHORE
@ VOL 5
ON OCT 16, 2016
Rajpal Singh Rathore. An engineer and youth leader shares his perspective on how the society should look like in the changing environment all over.
KnowHow / Youth Programs at the Intersection of Creativity and Critical Thinking
BY ELIZABETH WRIGHT
@ VOL 21
ON NOV 17, 2016
Elizabeth Wright presents "KnowHow" a local community organization that builds youth leadership and community engagement through the arts. KnowHow youth work at the intersection of creativity and critical thinking to engage with their communities, develop solutions to issues that affect their lives, and build vital life skills. Tonight, KnowHow adult allies will share the inspiration and design behind this work, information about their many programs, and their dreams for the future of their organization and our city.
Empowering Our Youth
BY SHANTA SUNDARASON
@ VOL 14
ON FEB 24, 2017
Shanta Sundarason is a social activist and runs The Giving Tree Unionville where she mentors youth to empower them into becoming positive change makers.
She seeks to bring attention to community involvement, volunteering, and teaching the youth these same things to create a better future.
Community Youth Boxing Gym
BY CAROLYN GECK
@ VOL 31
ON MAR 22, 2017
Carolyn Geck is the development director for the Detroit Boxing Gym’s youth program. For her, a boxing ring is a huge part of teaching kids how to become better adults.

The Christchurch Youth Movement
BY CLAUDIA MCDONALD
@ VOL 33
ON DEC 06, 2017
15 year old Claudia McDonald has a head full of ideas. She is involved with the Christchurch Youth Movement which creates youth opportunities and action in Christchurch.