Seo Yoon Yang

Seo Yoon Yang

Seo Yoon (Yoonie) Yang is a rising high school senior in Tennessee. She is passionate about advocacy, gun violence prevention, racial justice, and international relations. She has previously published

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Embracing my identity as a Korean American activist is empowering and a responsibility
Race

Embracing my identity as a Korean American activist is empowering and a responsibility

A Korean American student advocate against gun violence considers what it means to be Asian in America and the causes of the Atlanta shooting as AAPI hate crimes rise.

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By: Seo Yoon Yang
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Race

I arranged a protest at my high school. The reactionary racist attacks changed me

In December 2019, I met with school administrators at my high school in the Chattanooga, Tennessee, area. Inspired by 17-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, with whom I shared age and a passion for youth-orchestrated climate strikes, I wanted to amplify young voices in my community and decided to organize a

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4 Min
By: Seo Yoon Yang

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