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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.

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Amy Dumas is best known as WWE wrestler and Hall of Famer Lita. Over the last 20+ years, she has made her mark in sports entertainment, paving a way for women (and so many others) in pro wrestling and beyond to make road where there weren't roads. This weekend, Amy is taking part in WWE's Royal Rumble PPV, which reminds us of a few years back, when she wore a "Time's Up" shirt on a global stage, sending a message about the treatment of women and abusers in the entertainment industry.

This interview appears in the 20s & Change: San Francisco film, which has been recognized at the 2021 San Francisco Black Film Festival and Las Vegas Queer Arts Film Festival. Watch the film at www.lets.care.

Amy is an animal activist, a musician, a mental health advocate, a supporter of women's rights and justice for women dealing with insane laws to control their bodies, and someone who can not be contained. Amy is making an impact while dancing to the beat of her own drum, bringing the punk rock D.I.Y. spirit to the table each and every day. Follow Amy on Twitter @AmyDumas and on Instagram @MacheteGirl.

For more on Let's Care, visit www.lets.care.

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20s & Change: San Francisco (hosted by Matt Scott) is our pilot film to “pass the mic” to the changemakers who often go unheard. It has been honored and screened at the 2021 San Francisco Black Film Festival and Las Vegas Queer Arts Film Festival.

20s & Change features a number of themes that are relevant to young changemakers, in particular. Those themes include:


using your unique talents to make a positive impact in the world
creating a way out of (seemingly) no way
prioritizing diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice
the power of representation and storytelling
having “uncomfortable” conversation about identity and impact

The film is meant to model conversations about impact and identity. These are conversations that our world needs, in order to help others see their own identities as superpowers in changing the world for the better.

Watch the film at www.lets.care/film.

Celebrate 5 years with us at www.lets.care/five.

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Watch the YouTube video here, or listen in as Let's Care (www.lets.care) founder and host Matt Scott (@MattScottGW) interviews Erin Alexander (@MelaninErinVA) as part of the Let’s Care LIVE Saturday Conversation Series. Erin Alexander is the founder of Master Your Glo, the Business of Soul Searching (BOSS) podcast, and Melanin Erin Virtual Assistance. Learn from Erin's perspective, rooted in mental health, to find how you can design the lifestyle you deserve. Watch more conversations from this series at www.lets.care/live.

"Melanin Erin Virtual Assistance amplifies businesses by executing high level tasks so you can show up authentically in your business. Erin's high attention to detail, strong sense of communication and dedication to deadlines is what has secured her residual clients. If hired she will not only infuse her dynamic radio and tech knowledge into your strategy but help you articulate all needs to strengthen the voice of your business in 2021 and beyond.

Erin Alexander is a Virtual Assistant Professional and established Podcast Host whose mantra “Design the Lifestyle You Love and Deserve” has been featured on podcasts such as Minding My Black Business and Bad Girls Guide to Love by Ayo Gathing.  Her podcast reached its peak when it was added to Brown University Student Radio Station Roster late 2019. Erin utilized her media networking skills to build her listenership and feature her brand on numerous different media outlets."

www.melaninerinvirtualassistance.com


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Watch the YouTube video here, or listen in as Let's Care (www.lets.care) founder and host Matt Scott (@MattScottGW) interviews Attia Taylor (@AttiaTaylor) as part of the Let’s Care LIVE Saturday Conversation Series. 

Attia Taylor is a NYC based musician, writer, and content producer. She is the founder of Womanly, The Dorothy and a member of The Art Dept Collective. Her work is rooted in social justice, art, and design, to bring inclusive and culturally relevant content to sound, print and digital realms. She is passionate about building and cultivating communities through journalism, music, storytelling, and research.

www.attiataylor.com


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Watch the YouTube video here, or listen in as Let's Care (www.lets.care) founder and host Matt Scott (@MattScottGW) interviews Roxann Stafford (@jroxann) as part of the Let’s Care LIVE Saturday Conversation Series. Roxann Stafford, is a systems alchemist and architect co-creating universal prosperity. She brings a lens of justice, interdependence and well-being, as well as history and ancestry, to her work supporting local journalism at the Knight Foundation, and beyond.

“Roxann Stafford is the managing director of the Knight-Lenfest Local News Transformation Fund, a $20-million initiative that works to empower local news organizations to build trust with their audiences while producing outstanding journalism and developing new revenue streams that can enable them to reach long-term business sustainability.” 

Connect with Roxann: http://linkedin.com/in/roxannstafford/


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