Raising your voice is to help shape your communities. Thank you so much. We are thrilled to be here. I will turn it over to step. Stef. [applause] i mentioned the amazing young people that are here today. My name is stephanie cruz, i am on the board of mikva challenge. It is exceptionally exciting to hear the stories we are going to hear. These young people represent 25,000 young people who have participated in the soap box challenge. We are very lucky to hear these amazing stories. I am going to turn over to get it kicked off. [applause] thank you both so much. Myself and my colleague will be emceeing today, and we are thrilled to hear these speeches of brave young people who will speak out on the issues that matter to them that they want to see change that are affecting young people around the country and the world. I wont be speaking so much because we want to center their voices and their wisdom and their perspective. So without further ado, im , going to call our first speaker, mo
Tools and resources they need to drive positive changes in their communities and in their schools. We are thrilled to continue this partnership and we support nick to elevate these voices around the country. Super excited to hear the youth speakers today. For you all, the young people that are raising invoices to help shape your communities were glad youre here. Thank you very much. [applause] you mention the amazing young people that are up here today. My name is Stephanie Cruz and im am on the boardam of this challenge. This is exceptionally exciting that we are going to hear the soapbox. 25000 young people who have participated in the soapbox challenge in the country. We are very lucky to hear these amazing stories. Im going to turn it overr to gt us kicked off. [applause] wonderful thank you both so much. So myself and my colleague we will be emceeing today had we are just thrilled to hear the speeches these brave young people who are you going to speak out on the issues that matte
Thank you for joining us today. You are up here with mikva challenge, we are committed to developing young people to be informed and active citizens to create a just and equitable world. Named after two great civic leaders, we believe in the power of the voices that are here with us today and we believe in helping young people to create civic action to improve the world. I am going to turn it over to a colleague and friend from Facebook Education. [applause] hi, everyone. My name is nicole and i work on the Education Team focused on use leadership. Our mission is to provide young people with support and resources they need to drive positive changes in their communities and schools. We are thrilled to be getting this partnership, to be supporting mikva in their work. Hear the youtho speeches today. For you all, young people raising your voice is to help shape your communities. Thank you so much. [applause] i mentioned the amazing young people that are here today. My name is stephanie cr
Hello, everyone. Good evening. Thank you for joining us today. You are up here with mikva challenge, we are committed to developing young people to be informed and active citizens to create a just and equitable world. Named after two great civic leaders, we believe in the power of the voices that are here with us today and we believe in helping young people to create civic action to improve the world. I am going to turn it over to a colleague and friend from Facebook Education. [applause] hi, everyone. My name is nicole and i work on the Education Team focused on use leadership. Our mission is to provide young people with support and resources they need to drive positive changes in their communities and schools. We are thrilled to be getting this partnership, to be supporting mikva in their work. Hear the youtho speeches today. For you all, young people raising your voice is to help shape your communities. Thank you so much. [applause] i mentioned the amazing young people that are here
friends. it is wednesday, december 27th, i m willie geist. joe and mika have the morning off. a lot to get to including israeli forces shifting military efforts to southern and central gaza with officials warning the war could take many more months. and hours from now, antony blinken and alejandro mayor kas are set to meet with mexican president obrador. plus donald trump continues to claim he should be immune from any prosecution surrounding his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. we ll have the latest there. also ahead, bus drivers across the country increasingly under attack on the job. we ll dig into an alarming trend and what officials are doing about it. with us this morning, jonathan lemire, susan paige, and retired four star navy admiral james stavridis. good morning to you all. let s begin together with israel expanding the ground invasion in gaza. this as the united states continues to urge israel to protect civilian lives and shift to a more low intensity oper