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I Hope Telling Stories Though 'making A Difference' - As In My Academic Work And Nonprofit Work - Will Help Me To Live My Grandmother's Adage Of 'life Is Not About What Happens To You, But About What You Do With What Happens To You.'

Caricatured As Navel-gazers, Millennials Are Said To Live For Their 'likes' And Status Updates. But The Young People I Know Often Leverage Social Media In Selfless Ways.

For Most Young Americans I Know, 'serving' In The Broadest Sense Now Seems Like The Only Thing To Do.

That's Not What I Want My Children To Hear. That's Not Representative Of The Country That I Want My Children To Grow Up In. And So That Actually I Found Far More Upsetting As A Mom, As A Woman, As An American, And Even As My Mother's Daughter Than Anything They Said About My Mom.

I Really Believe That With A Little Bit Of Information, Kids Can Make A Big Difference.