Meet the Ashoka Young Changemakers

Joshua’s story is more than the story of one young person leading young. It is the story of creating a culture for all youth to be changemakers.

When new immigrant and refugee students started coming to her school, Peyton Klein saw the possibility for mutual learning and support.

The transition from the old world of rules, repetition, and hierarchies to one defined by change requires everyone to be a giver, everyone powerful, everyone a changemaker.

After meeting a friend’s brother who loved to play soccer but was excluded from the team because he has Down Syndrome, Josh became determined to find a way.