Month: January 2013

       When I was in 8th grade, my math teacher came into class a day after a substitute taught in her stead, and immediately handed four friends and me a week of detention.  She claimed that the substitute wrote we had all acted out throughout the entire class.  I immediately protested saying, “Ask anyone else… Continue reading Do Young People Actually Matter?

Last October, I could not contain my excitement to meet one of my personal heroes, New York State Senator Kirstin Gillibrand, who was coming to visit the Science Barge, an off-the-grid urban farm I worked at in Yonkers, New York.  She is an influential voice for farmers in this country, and the grant she garnered for… Continue reading Generating Leadership