Tomorrow Project Contest Challenges
Young Leaders
David Hogg, 25, who survived the 2018 school shooting in Parkland, Fla., is planning a $20 million campaign to elect younger Democrats. Is it time for new, younger leadership in Congress?
"People say they want change in the Democratic Party," he told the New York Times. "But really they want change so long as it doesn’t potentially endanger their position of power. That’s not actually wanting change. That’s selfishness.”
Hogg, a 2023 Harvard graduate, helped form March for Our Lives, a youth movement to stop gun violence. He is currently the president of Leaders We Deserve and the recently elected vice chair of the Democratic National Committee. His campaign aims to replace older Democratic members of Congress in solidly blue districts in next year's primaries with younger, more combative leaders who take on the challenges under the Trump administration.
Read the New York Times story, April 15, 2025
[Photo credit: Bob Daemmrich/Alamy, New York Times, April 15, 2025]
TOMORROW PROJECT CONTEST DETAILS:
- Open to teens, 13-19, who have a YWP account. (It's free to join!)
- Must be original work and not published elsewhere. No AI.
- No limit to number of submissions.
- Each submission will be considered for the Tomorrow Project's six grand prizes of $250 to be awarded when the first phase of the project is completed in October 2025.
- Prize winners and honorable mentions will also be published in The Voice.
Questions? Contact Susan Reid, YWP Executive Director: Reid@YWP on the site, or by email: sreid@youngwritersproject.org