By Olivia Cohen >> Raven Schwam-Curtis, a New York native and social media influencer, launched her TikTok account in 2021 to break down long-winded, often hard to understand topics into videos her audience could digest in less than a minute. “I became really invested in this idea of democratizing intellectual information and democratizing knowledge at
By Allie Miller >> For Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald J. Trump, there is no clear path to victory without a win in Pennsylvania, and the state’s young voters could help decide the race. Among the swing state’s young voters is 20-year-old Temple University junior Cecilia Schleinitz, a political science and economics
By Noah Beaumont >> Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are making their last gambits in swing states like Michigan where youth voter registration is high. As in other battleground states, the election here could come down to young voter turnout. The presidential race is in a statistical tie heading into the
By Emmy Berger >> In just over 48 hours in early October, the University of North Carolina at Wilmington Young Democrats put together a canvassing event to register new voters. It was just days ahead of the Oct. 11 voter registration deadline, and there was an urgency to their actions. As in other swing states,
By Kallie Cox On April 27, a group of Muslim students at Washington University in St. Louis laid out mats and began their evening prayers. Behind them, other students, faculty and community members began to prepare food, talk quietly and finish setting up the student encampment for Palestine. Then police from several local departments armed
