S2: EP7: How Your Passion Can Make An Impact

S2: EP7


How Your Passion Can Make An Impact


Today I have the pleasure of interviewing an incredible young
lady, 16 year old, high school student, Bianca Jortner from
Connecticut, who co-founded a non-profit, student-led
organisation called ‘ Youth Promise’ with her friend Savannah
Jiang, which provides underserved youth with free virtual
tutoring and group classes.


Bianca and Savannah came up with the idea after witnessing first
hand how the pandemic impacted education for students. Having a
huge passion for social justice and equality in today’s society,
and being students themselves they knew they could do something
about it. They were passionate about creating an organisation and
took the initiative to reach out to the under-served youth who
have been affected more harshly by the pandemic; many didn’t have
access to wifi devices, or the resources and academic guidance
they needed during this time.


They knew they came from places where they were fortunate enough
to get resources they needed, so they felt it was especially
important to give back and aid youth, and provide free, virtual
educational resources for them as they knew that education is
vital and incredibly important for everyone.


The organisation started up pretty fast in the summer of 2020,
and it has been a learning curve since. Their journey was
difficult when it came to learning about the non-profit, and
balancing it with school.  Bianca is planning to go into
medicine and Savannah into Politics.


Fast forward, they are making an impact on a phenomenal scale. To
date they have over 200 volunteer tutors on their books and help
students from Kindergarten to 12th grade.


We discuss:


︎ Bianca’s journey


︎ Youth Promise’s Journey


︎ How the current climate is affecting education amongst low
socio- economic groups


︎ How youth can recognise their passions


︎How youth can take initiative with their passions


︎ Using your resources and advantages to help others


︎ Making a difference in the world


Plus, much, much more.


Please share this inspiring episode.





https://www.youthpromise.org/


Bianca recommends this video about Social Injustice


https://youtu.be/ziW5JG6GTHk