Today’s youth are powerful. People under the age of 25 comprise over 40% of the world’s population. And with the rise of collaborative technologies and social media, these nearly 2 billion youth worldwide can easily connect with each other despite the physical limitations of geographic distances. Evidence of this power can be seen in several instances globally and locally. Alec Loorz, a California native, at the age of 17 brought his peers together in 45 countries for the gl