By Susan Curnan
With FDR’s spirit and portrait front and center in President Biden’s oval office, the legacy of Eleanor Roosevelt as champion for social justice and youth voice in strengthening our democracy can’t be far behind and could not be more timely.
Today, our nation’s young people, in all their diversity, are rightly bound and determined to have their voices heard on urgent matters of environmental, economic, and racial justice. Climate change has been called a “threat multiplier” as it makes inequalities worse for those who have done the least to create it. This generation of young people did not create the mess we are in, but they can help fix it.