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Our students get published! Check out the stories our student reporters and interns have been working on.


Designing with purpose: Carla Murillo-González on Architecture, wellness, and resilience
By Michelle Vargas March 30, 2025 Youthcast Media Group® As a Latina woman in architecture, Carla Murillo-González is a minority within...


Voices of Resilience: How Two Men Transformed Trauma Into Missions of Education
By Angely Peña-Agramonte March 30, 2025 Youthcast Media Group® Fletcher Cleaves and Brad Hughes have never met, yet they are linked by...

Teen ‘passenger empowerment’ key to safer driving, advocates say
By Shaunavahn Reid, Alani Schwertfeger, Cindy Tint, Yaneli Victoriano, and Nichole Christian January 6, 2025 Youthcast Media Group®...


Distracted driving is a major cause of death for Texans. These teens are trying to stop it.
By Bethel Kifle, Cindy Tint, Yaneli Victoriano, Jose Negrete and Cara Kelly January 3, 2025 Youthcast Media Group® This story was...

Youth in U.S., uniquely burdened by the threat of gun violence, are pushed to action
By Kaila Hu, Gianna Michel, Angel Treviño and Isra Yousif December 23, 2024 Youthcast Media Group® D'arin Floyd-Baldwin (Courtesy of...


Gun violence impacts the mental health of big city teens
By Ginger Roger Ceballos, Michelle Flores, Genevieve Jennings and Giana Newball December 23, 2024 Youthcast Media Group® Israel Hernandez...

YMG opens doors to myriad careers for underserved students. But don’t just take my word for it...
By Jayne O'Donnell December 22, 2024 Youthcast Media Group® Shaunavahn Reid was hard to miss at our first in-person boot camp in...


YMG survey: 70% of high school students think about gun violence “some, a lot, or all of the time”
Students also report on the impact, solutions By Brie Zeltner December 22, 2024 Youthcast Media Group® Gun violence is so much a part of...


Philadelphia’s Gun Violence Down, but fear remains among youth
By Zahiya Daniels, Kayla Nguyen, Ericka Otero and Natalie Spina December 21, 2024 Youthcast Media Group® Beautiful Tashya Vinson, an 11th...


Breaking The Stigma: An Open Conversation about Grief and Mental Health in Philadelphia with Dominque Wallace
By Zahiya Daniels and Nichole Christian October 31, 2024 Youthcast Media Group® This story was published on Mindsite News's online...


High school students struggling to cope with return to school- Counselors needed as students return to school following
By Nicole Cortes, Zioni Moore and Whitney Souffrant October 21, 2024 Youthcast Media Group ® This story was published in USA Today on...


School should come first, but sports are important too
By Jason Perloff and Leo Marzigliano October 10, 2024 Youthcast Media Group® Student-athletes in their graduating gowns on the basketball...


Want results for your donation? Here’s Hiyan (and Hermes and…)
By Jayne O'Donnell October 9, 2024 Youthcast Media Group ® Youthcast Media Group ® was the first program Hiyan Daniels learned of in...

Riding in cars comes with responsibilities, too - And more on what YMG teens are learning this fall
By Brie Zeltner October 9, 2024 Youthcast Media Group ® More than half of teens think that it’s really important to speak up as a...
This is my “Why YMG?” —share yours with us!
By Hermes Falcon October 9, 2024 Youthcast Media Group ® My journey with YMG started in the fall of 2020 when I joined Youthcast Media...
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