Yara El Turk never imagined water could hold memory, until youth across Lebanon, Tunisia, and Indigenous Canada began teaching me. Through art, silence, and reclaimed stories, young people are transforming trauma, displacement, and environmental injustice into acts of resistance.

A young first-generation scientist witnesses a Harvard lab shut down after political funding cuts, propelling her into the intersection of research, policy, and advocacy. Amid her family’s fears as immigrants, she commits to medicine and justice, proving that youth are not future leaders, they are leaders now.