In this episode, we make a shift from speaking to scholars across the country to speaking to young leaders who have decided not to wait for change to happen.

Dr. Joe Bishop begins the conversation on how to support young leaders with social media strategist and organizer Annie Wu Henry. Annie explains how digital spaces allow people to connect to communities that would be otherwise inaccessible. And despite the impact of the digital age that often isolates people from one another, people remain hungry for authentic connection and for their stories to be heard. These connections forged around social issues have the power to unite us.

How can we use the ever-changing digital media landscape as an effective tool for justice? How can we learn from the young leaders who are cultivating community through these online spaces?

Special Guest: Annie Wu Henry is a social media and digital strategy expert for progressive organizations and campaigns. She believes that we need on-the-ground organizing, electoral work, and the online media to drive progress in society, and has taken a hand in contributing to all three. She was most recently the social media producer for John Fetterman's successful Senate campaign in Pennsylvania.

As a strategist, creator, and political operative, Annie has been profiled by the New York Times, contributed to some of the largest online advocacy platforms like @feminist, @impact, @shityoushouldcareabout, @intersectionalenvironmentalist, @so.informed, @genzforchange and has had a myriad of content "go viral," being shared by the likes of Rachel Cargle, Viola Davis, Kerry Washington, Ariana Grande, Yara Shahidi, the Kardashians, Jenners, Olivia Rodrigo + more. Through her personal platform, she engages her own following to inform and activate them about the world and how they can get involved to push for change. She is passionate about progressive politics, press notifications, pop culture, pressed coffee, and people who do the right thing.

Our Children Can't Wait is a podcast by the Center for the Transformation of Schools in the School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA. Dr. Joe Bishop is the host. Elizabeth Windom is the Producer. Julia Windom is the Associate Producer. Geneva Sum is the Creative Director, and Senior Producer is Jay Woodward. Our Children Can't Wait is a companion to the book of the same name, Our Children Can't Wait. Available now from Teachers College Press and Amazon. Our Children Can't Wait is produced by Windhaven Productions and Bluejay Atlantic.

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