Hillary Clinton and Yara Shahidi Tell Young Women Things Will Be Okay – “If We Act”
Marley Dias, the upbeat and bespectacled 12-year-old founder of #BlackGirlBooks, was in charge of fielding questions from the audience for Hillary Clinton and Yara Shahidi at the Teen Vogue Summit.
"The biggest request is for both of you to just say everything's going to be okay," Marley said.
The ask was a heartbreaker.
It was a request I wish teen girls didn't feel they had to make, but as one of the few adult women in the crowd, I realized I wanted to hear Hillary say it, too.
"It's up to us, but if we act, everything is going to be okay," Hillary reassured the crowd of hundreds of young women, about 50 of whom had earned scholarships to travel from across the country to the two-day summit.
Her measured response summed up the theme of her conversation with teen activist and Blackish star Yara Shahidi at the event's keynote: hopeful,
