Reading a story about democracy in The Economist a few weeks back, Yale senior Sophia Clementi was struck by a sentence in the article stating that young people are less likely to be heard than their elders in national political discourse.
That fact is why Clementi is thrilled to be participating this summer in the Y20 summit in Australia, where youth delegations from the G20 countries gather to make their own voices heard.
http://news.yale.edu/2014/05/16/student-spotlight-graduating-senior-sophia-clementi-have-voice-international-summit
