**Winner of the 2020 Nautilus GOLD Award for YA Nonfiction**
"Jamie Margolin is among the powerful and inspiring youth activists
leading a movement to demand urgent action on the climate crisis. With
determined purpose and moral clarity, Jamie is pushing political leaders
to develop ambitious plans to confront this existential threat to
humanity. Youth To Power is an essential how-to for anyone of any age
who feels called to act to protect our planet for future generations."
--- Former Vice President Al Gore Climate change activist and Zero
Hour cofounder Jamie Margolin offers the essential guide to changemaking
for young people. The 1963 Children's March. The 2016 Dakota Access
Pipeline protests. March for Our Lives, and School Strike for Climate.
What do all these social justice movements have in common?They were led
by passionate, informed, engaged young people. Jamie Margolin has been
organizing and protesting since she was fourteen years old. Now the
co-leader of a global climate action movement, she knows better than
most how powerful a young person can be. You don't have to be able to
vote or hold positions of power to change the world. In Youth to
Power, Jamie presents the essential guide to changemaking, with advice
on writing and pitching op-eds, organizing successful events and
peaceful protests, time management as a student activist, utilizing
social and traditional media to spread a message, and sustaining
long-term action. She features interviews with prominent young activists
including Tokata Iron Eyes of the #NoDAPL movement and Nupol Kiazolu of
the #BlackLivesMatter movement, who give guidance on handling backlash,
keeping your mental health a priority, and how to avoid getting taken
advantage of. Jamie walks readers through every step of what effective,
healthy, intersectional activism looks like. Young people have a lot to
say, and Youth to Power will give you the tools to raise your voice.
