For them, communication, entertainment, and even education—especially over the past year—take place through screens. Who are today’s teenagers? What matters to them? And what do they want to tell us?

The March DIALOGUES event is not about young people. It’s led by them. Trading places with the adults, they will become the event’s co-creators and speakers, sharing with the rest of us what they think we need to hear. In a first-of-its-kind DIALOGUES discussion, the eleven teenage panelists will be free to choose the topics, the questions, and the mode of conversation.

Their parents, for the most part, experienced the global financial crisis as working adults, shaping their outlook. For their part, these teenagers may have developed their own very different perceptions of work. They have grown up through significant changes in the education system, and, more than previous generations, they know what the term “bullying” means.

Even as they are held up as the future of humanity, they are also held responsible, in some cases, for flouting pandemic safety rules and provoking violence at protests. And more than any generation before them, they are threatened by the prospect of a dystopian future foretold by predictions of the increasingly catastrophic effects of climate change they are likely to see during adulthood.

The 41st SNF DIALOGUES event is held by teenagers and for teenagers, seeking to spark discussion about the stereotypes they face, the worries and concerns they share, and the future they dream of. 

You can be part of the discussion! Send us your questions and join the conversation at snfdialogues.org/questions.

The DIALOGUES discussions are curated and moderated by Anna-Kynthia Bousdoukou. 

DIALOGUES. Diverse opinions, new ways of thinking.

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