Alex Young
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I'm Alex Young, a London-based journalist and photographer telling stories at the intersection of youth, protest, and culture — mostly on 35mm. I document what moves people, and what they move toward.
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Jerome Foster II: A Climate President in the Making. AI-Generated.
At just 23 years old, Jerome Foster II has already advised the White House, co-founded a national youth voting initiative, and shaped conversations around environmental justice at the federal level. He is not running for public office. But his trajectory — steeped in policy, protest, and civic engagement — raises a timely question: What would it look like for the United States to finally elect a president who puts climate at the center of national governance?
By Alex Young 6 months ago in Earth
Elijah McKenzie-Jackson. AI-Generated.
It’s not every day you meet someone who sketches climate grief on a napkin and turns it into a Times Square billboard. But Elijah McKenzie-Jackson isn’t here to do things the usual way. The 21-year-old British artist and activist — or “artivist,” as he calls it — is part of a growing wave of Gen Z changemakers who don’t just want to save the world. They want to remake it.
By Alex Young 6 months ago in Art
