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I'm very, very involved in charities involving youth.

One of my dreams in life is to do fund-raising for the youth.

I love talking to the youth and helping them as much as I can or encouraging them, if I can help them at all.

In my teens, I worked as an aide in my community supervising and mentoring youth in various programs and delivering lunches to needy students.

The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.

I love children, and most of my involvement now has to do with children or youth programs.

I wish all high schools could offer students the outside activities that were available at the old Harrison High on Chicago's West Side in the late '20s. They enabled me to become part of a school newspaper, drama group, football team and student government.

It is incumbent upon all of us to build communities with the educational opportunities and support systems in place to help our youth become successful adults.

I'm on Governor Gray Davis' California Alliance Towards Education to bring the arts back to high schools.

At the end of 2002, mid-way through my junior year at Yale and increasingly freaked out about the deepening climate crisis, I dropped out to try to build a youth movement.