Contra turns 21 during the Covid-19 pandemic, and even though she doesn’t get to celebrate as planned, she shares how spending her teen years battling serious depression actually prepared her well for the disappointment, anxiety, and isolation of lockdown. A courageous share, she blows out her candles facing a still uncertain future, like so many millennials.
Latests
-
PRECIOUS: Los Angeles, U.S.
Precious, one of our L.A. based GlobalGirl Media reporters, worries about how the Corona crisis is effecting unhoused and incarcerated people, so she (safely) takes to the streets to find out.
Post Views: 3,656 -
THE GREEN SCHOOL IN BALI
GGM Reporter, Edith Romero, visits the Green School in Bali, a school that is doing everything in an eco-friendly and environmentally sustainable way.
Post Views: 3,408 -
TEEN VAPING: Trend or Life Threatening Crisis?
GlobalGirl Media Los Angeles reporters investigate the surge in vaping and e-cigarettes among American teenagers and the impact on their health.
Post Views: 3,323 -
Global Girl Media celebrates an active summer!
Simultaneous training in London, Johannesburg, Chicago, and Los Angeles. Stay tuned for reports from young women who lensing critical topics in their lives and communities. Because what matters to them matters to us!
Thankful to our supporters and funders who make that happen!
Post Views: 274
You Might also like
-
THE GREEN SCHOOL IN BALI
GGM Reporter, Edith Romero, visits the Green School in Bali, a school that is doing everything in an eco-friendly and environmentally sustainable way.
Post Views: 3,408 -
INGRID: GUATEMALA
Ingrid takes us into Villa Nueva, a low-income neighborhood where she lives, to show how day laborers and local vendors are getting by under Covid-19.Post Views: 3,698 -
ACTIVISTA: LENEE RICHARDS
For this second in the Activista Series, we talk with SUPER STAR campaign manager Lenee Richards– the woman in charge of Holly Mitchell’s campaign for LA County Supervisor. She tells us what motivates her work…and her view that being authentic & embracing who we are is the key to our power as women and as leaders.
Post Views: 4,181 -
TEEN VAPING: Trend or Life Threatening Crisis?
GlobalGirl Media Los Angeles reporters investigate the surge in vaping and e-cigarettes among American teenagers and the impact on their health.
Post Views: 3,323