Meet the spring advocates and learn why they applied for the Young Advocated Program Karen Basaves (she/her/hers) Aurora, CO I joined the advocates program to learn more about how to engage in public policy in a way that will...
Ximena Cortez She/Her/Hers Senior, California State University, Northridge Ximena Cortez is currently a Senior at California State Northridge majoring...
Young Invincibles has been empowering young adults for over a decade; our network of youth community and student leaders numbers in the thousands. Young adults have proven time and time again that they will be the change past...
I have grown up witnessing the injustice and negligence inside the health care system, from watching my parents skip medical appointments to avoid paying copayments to seeing my sister open her emergency department bill after suffering from anaphylactic shock....
When my mom’s dentist told her to get a root canal, my mom said she would rather wait for three months until it was time to fly back to Bangladesh. It did not make sense to me. How...
YI Colorado is gearing up for the upcoming legislative session starting in January 2023, and young adults across the state are hungry for change. In our engagement with young adults this year, we reached an unprecedented twenty-nine different municipalities and...
New York’s young adults face tremendous issues, from access to affordable higher education to a lack of adequate resources to meet their basic needs and the enormity of medical service pricing and medical debt. On November 30th – December 1st,...
For a few short moments before the summer of 2021, we were on the brink of returning to what felt like normal. News outlets reported that vaccination rates in the United States were rising, Covid cases were decreasing, and even...
Tuesday, December 6, is Colorado Gives Day, Colorado’s largest day of giving where Coloradans are coming together to celebrate the nonprofits that make our communities strong. Hear directly from our program participants in our Colorado office about why you should...
Young Invincibles (YI) is accepting applications for the Midwest Spring 2023 Young Advocates Program (YAP). It is a unique, paid, and virtual fellowship program which trains young adults ages 18-34 on ways to address inequities in higher education, healthcare, and...