Personal Reporting for Motto by TIME

Motto is TIME Magazine's vertical dedicated to empowering the next generation of thought leaders. My essay-writing for Motto focuses on women's empowerment.

Quick sample:
"Growing up as a millennial, I’ve had near-constant access to technology and the 24-hour news cycle. This sounds empowering, but it’s not. It’s overwhelming. I studied government, and then environmental policy in graduate school, and yet I felt unsure of how to act in any meaningful way. I’ve seen millennials characterized as politically apathetic; my take is that we feel politically impotent. We’re inundated with news about how our social and political structures fail our most vulnerable communities, and yet we’re raised in a country that has an inherent distrust of government and offers no clear alternative for individual action.

I don’t want to wax poetic in describing the March as a watershed moment. Individuals and groups have been doing this type of work constantly and tirelessly. Black Lives Matter protests were happening before the Women’s March, and have happened since. But the shared shock at the size of the Women’s March was probably due to the fact that many groups in America are able to live oblivious to — or at least greatly sheltered from — the woes affecting other groups who don’t look like or live near them. It made the sudden grouping of millions of individuals in social protest feel like a flash flood."