Yes to Youth!

About Yes to Youth!

Often, we overlook the power of young people to create change. Yes to Youth! is a podcast series getting to know changemakers who started early and are making a real impact, in spite of and often because of their age and identity. Yes to Youth is presented by Let’s Care in collaboration with LearnServe International, and hosted by Let's Care creator and longtime LearnServe volunteer Matt Scott.

Publisher

Matt Scott

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

2 Mar 2021

Latest episode

26 Apr 2022

Latest episodes

8 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   26 Apr 2022

   Clint Smith III: Passing the word, doing the work (ft. Charlotte Rose LaMotte, Ra'mya Davis, Chris Cole, Kayla Waysome, & Scott Rechler)

   Often, we overlook the power of young people to create change. Yes to Youth is a podcast series getting to know changemakers who started early and are making a real impact, in spite of and often because of their age and identity. Yes to Youth is presented by Let’s Care in collaboration with LearnServe International. Your host is Matt Scott, creator of Let's Care and longtime LearnServe volunteer. Today's episode features a bonus episode centering Clint Smith III, recipient of LearnServe's 2022 Civic Champion Award and featuring the voices of LearnServe Co-Director and CEO Scott Rechler and alumni Charlotte Rose LaMotte, Ra'mya Davis, Chris Cole, and Kayla Waysome. Civic Champion Awardee Clint Smith Clint Smith is a staff writer at The Atlantic. He is the author of the narrative nonfiction book, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America, which was a #1 New York Times bestseller and was selected by the New York Times as one of the 10 best books of 2021. He is also the author of the poetry collection Counting Descent, which won the 2017 Literary Award for Best Poetry Book from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association and was a finalist for an NAACP Image Award. Clint has received fellowships from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, New America, the Emerson Collective, the Art For Justice Fund, Cave Canem, and the National Science Foundation. His essays, poems, and scholarly writing have been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, Poetry Magazine, The Paris Review, the Harvard Educational Review, and elsewhere. He is a 2014 National Poetry Slam champion and a 2017 recipient of the Jerome J. Shestack Prize from the American Poetry Review. Previously, Clint taught high school English in Prince George’s County, Maryland where, in 2013, he was named the Christine D. Sarbanes Teacher of the Year by the Maryland Humanities Council. While teaching, Clint served as a LearnServe Advisor, nominating and supporting students through the LearnServe Fellows, Incubator, and Abroad Programs.He is the host of the YouTube series Crash Course Black American History. Clint received his B.A. in English from Davidson College and his Ph.D. in Education from Harvard University. Born and raised in New Orleans, he currently lives in Maryland with his wife and their two children. For more on LearnServe International, visit www.learn-serve.org. For more on Let's Care, visit www.lets.care.

2. 

   7 May 2021

   Yasmine Arrington: On the Rough Side of the Mountain | From idea to life-changing nonprofit

   Often, we overlook the power of young people to create change. Yes to Youth is a podcast series getting to know changemakers who started early and are making a real impact, in spite of and often because of their age and identity. Yes to Youth is presented by Let’s Care in collaboration with LearnServe International. Your host is Matt Scott, creator of Let's Care and longtime LearnServe volunteer. Today's episode features Yasmine Arrington, founder of ScholarCHIPS, which provides college scholarships, mentoring and a peer support network to children of incarcerated parents, inspiring them to complete their college education. Learn more at scholarchipsfund.org. For more on LearnServe International, visit www.learn-serve.org. For more on Let's Care, visit www.lets.care.

3. 

   28 Apr 2021

   Xavier Rivera-Lanza: Chasing Time | Giving back & leaving no one behind

   Often, we overlook the power of young people to create change. Yes to Youth is a podcast series getting to know changemakers who started early and are making a real impact, in spite of and often because of their age and identity. Yes to Youth is presented by Let’s Care in collaboration with LearnServe International. Your host is Matt Scott, creator of Let's Care and longtime LearnServe volunteer. Today's episode features Xavier Rivera Lanza (xavierrivera.com). For more on LearnServe International, visit www.learn-serve.org. For more on Let's Care, visit www.lets.care.

4. 

   22 Apr 2021

   Charlotte Rose LaMotte: An Absolutely True Diary of Charlotte Rose LaMotte | From diabetes diagnosis to disruptive technology

   Often, we overlook the power of young people to create change. Yes to Youth is a podcast series getting to know changemakers who started early and are making a real impact, in spite of and often because of their age and identity. Yes to Youth is presented by Let’s Care in collaboration with LearnServe International. Your host is Matt Scott, creator of Let's Care and longtime LearnServe volunteer. Today's episode features Charlotte Rose LaMotte. For more on LearnServe International, visit www.learn-serve.org. For more on Let's Care, visit www.lets.care.

5. 

   15 Apr 2021

   Quenton Horton: The Bird's Perch | The value of perspective in cross-cultural impact

   Often, we overlook the power of young people to create change. Yes to Youth is a podcast series getting to know changemakers who started early and are making a real impact, in spite of and often because of their age and identity. Yes to Youth is presented by Let’s Care in collaboration with LearnServe International. Your host is Matt Scott, creator of Let's Care and longtime LearnServe volunteer. Today's episode features Quenton Horton, Staff Writer at The Gilded Sages and Director of Interns & Fellows at Institute for Education, as well as a former employee of the DC government and US Holocaust Memorial Museum. For more on LearnServe International, visit www.learn-serve.org. For more on Let's Care, visit www.lets.care.

6. 

   8 Apr 2021

   Mary Sun: The Good Spiral | Neurodivergence & navigating differences to make an impact

   Content warning: Rape (mentioned in spoken word poem performance) Often, we overlook the power of young people to create change. Yes to Youth is a podcast series getting to know changemakers who started early and are making a real impact, in spite of and often because of their age and identity. Yes to Youth is presented by Let’s Care in collaboration with LearnServe International. Your host is Matt Scott, creator of Let's Care and longtime LearnServe volunteer. Today's episode features Mary Sun, Dermatology Research Fellow at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Clinical Product Fellow at Cityblock Health, MD/MSCR Student at Mount Sinai, and Master's Student at Harvard. For more on LearnServe International, visit www.learn-serve.org. For more on Let's Care, visit www.lets.care.

7. 

   31 Mar 2021

   Emma Strother: Well Behaved Women Seldom Make History | Using music as an engine for social change

   Often, we overlook the power of young people to create change. Yes to Youth is a podcast series getting to know changemakers who started early and are making a real impact, in spite of and often because of their age and identity. Yes to Youth is presented by Let’s Care (//www.lets.care) in collaboration with LearnServe International (//learn-serve.org). Your host is Matt Scott, creator of Let's Care and longtime LearnServe volunteer. Today's episode features Emma Strother, Development Manager at LearnServe and 2010 alum of the LearnServe Fellows and Zambia programs with her venture "Community Handbells". For more on LearnServe International, visit www.learn-serve.org. For more on Let's Care, visit www.lets.care.

8. 

   2 Mar 2021

   Coming Soon: Yes to Youth!

   Often, we overlook the power of young people to create change. Yes to Youth! is a podcast series getting to know changemakers who started early and are making a real impact, in spite of and often because of their age and identity. Yes to Youth is presented by Let’s Care in collaboration with LearnServe International (//www.learn-serve.org), and hosted by Let's Care (//www.lets.care) creator and longtime LearnServe volunteer Matt Scott.

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