“What are you doing for us?” NYC youth ask mayoral candidates

Youth leaders and policy advocates call on New York City mayoral candidates to address the systemic challenges facing foster, immigrant, and homeless youth.

In The Imprint, reporter Susanti Sarkar covers a powerful youth-led mayoral forum, organized by Next100 Policy Entrepreneur Cheyanne Deopersaud, who coordinated a coalition of organizations to work with Next100 to execute the forum. In the event, young New Yorkers demanded real answers from candidates on issues like housing, employment, and public safety. The event, organized by a coalition of youth and advocacy groups, brought attention to the urgent needs of foster, immigrant, and homeless youth—and who’s showing up for them.

Cheyanne Deopersaud, a policy entrepreneur at Next100, helped lead the forum and summed it up clearly: “We want to know: What are you doing for us?”

“We want to know: What are you doing for us?”

Read the full article from The Imprint here.