Month April 2021
Inspirational Nugget Ziad Ahmed is 18-year-old senior at Princeton Day School and passionate social justice activist. Growing up, he frequently reflected on his privilege, surroundings, and the current reality of the whole world. Ziad has resolved to work towards a… Continue Reading →
Inspirational Nugget Maya Van Wagenen is 16-years-old. When she was 11, her family moved to Brownsville, Texas. As a middle schooler in a Texas border town, Maya considered herself an outsider. “I always struggled with making friends and finding confidence,”… Continue Reading →
Inspirational Nugget Amy O’Toole is a 12-year-old student who helped run a science experiment inspired by Beau Lotto’s participative science approach. At age 10 she became one of the youngest people ever to publish a peer-reviewed science paper. She took… Continue Reading →
Inspirational Nugget Another one teen genius in the sphere of technology is 15 year-old Thomas Suarez. He has designed a 3D printer that is 10 times faster and more reliable than anything on the market. The number one issue that… Continue Reading →
Inspirational Nugget Mezon Almellehan, Age 16: Almellehan fled the Syrian Civil war only to discover that female classmates in the refugee camps are pressured into early marriage (often with much older men) out of desperation to secure their financial futures…. Continue Reading →
Inspirational Nugget The son of once lower-class citizens who rose to the middle class through hard work and education, Wong founded Scholarism as a young teen. This pro-democracy activist group for students is dedicated to reforming education and political policies… Continue Reading →
Inspirational Nugget Before it was passed last December, Arizona senators McCain and Flake slipped a rider into the National Defense Authorization Act, giving 2,400 acres of Apache holy land to an Australian mining company. In protest of the shady legislation… Continue Reading →
Inspirational Nugget Gouverneur Morris (January 31, 1752 – November 6, 1816) was an American statesman, a Founding Father of the United States, and a signatory to the Articles of Confederation and the United States Constitution. He wrote the Preamble to… Continue Reading →
Inspirational Nugget Cleo C. Fields (born November 22, 1962) is an American attorney and politician who represented Louisiana’s 4th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1993(at the age of 31) to 1997 and ran unsuccessfully for… Continue Reading →
Inspirational Nugget Calvin K.Y. Say (born February 1, 1952) is an American politician and former Speaker of the Hawaii House of Representatives. Say currently serves as a member of the Honolulu City Council, representing Honolulu’s 5th District. He was sworn… Continue Reading →
Inspirational Nugget Emily Ann Cain (born March 29, 1980) is an American politician from Maine and Executive Director of EMILY’s List. A member of the Democratic Party, Cain served in the Maine Senate from 2012 to 2014, representing the 30th… Continue Reading →
Inspirational Nugget Corey Parent (born July 8, 1990) is a member of the Vermont Senate. A Republican, he represented St. Albans City and Southeastern St. Albans Town in the Vermont House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019 and won election… Continue Reading →
