I recently presented about YARID's women's empowerment program at the Voices of Women event at University of California at San Diego (UCSD). The panel included: Scott Silverman, the founder of Second Chance (a leading organization in workforce development in San Diego), who now runs a business helping people overcome their addictions, Steve Wisotzki from the Navy Special Forces who works with character development with young men who become Navy Seals, and Dr. Jay Silverman th

Youth Leaders: “We are the Change” Written by Meg Deitz, Mission Bay High School As a society we pride ourselves in having the “next new thing.” We spend our lives striving to be “in the know.” Gossip magazines, video games, television shows, and Internet crazes have created a false understanding of what is actually going on in our world. Through our never-ending desire to have the “next new thing,” like the latest cell phone, we be- gin to forget where they come from and who