Celeste Huang-Menders
Bio:
Celeste Huang-Menders is active in raising awareness of pressing global humanitarian crises as well as important issues facing young people in contemporary society. As a journalist, documentary photographer and independent advocate, Celeste is a co-founder of The Power of Faces (www.ThePowerOfFaces.com), a global refugee portrait project. Celeste’s work has been exhibited at Amnesty International, The Middle East Institute, numerous universities, and other institutions. She has shared information on the refugee crisis through multiple Talks on TED.com and other platforms. In addition to her advocacy work, Celeste is active in a wide range of STEM disciplines and fine art. Celeste’s mural projects include installations at Trenton’s Roberto Clemente Park, the Providence city-wide arts festival PVDFest, and on the border wall at the Tijuana/U.S. border.
Online trolling, harassment, and hate campaigns targeting female journalists persist all over the world.
Incidents of sexual assaults on college campuses seem to be returning to pre-pandemic levels at a number of colleges and universities, according to new reports.
In May, the school shut down its 54-year-old student newspaper, The Viking Saga, because of two articles that discussed LGBTQ+ issues.
With a simple gesture, Sacheen Littlefeather lit a fuse that would impact the rest of her life.
In a post-Roe v. Wade America, methods to prevent pregnancy are more important than ever.
The worst part is that when the next school year comes around, I know more casualties and more pain and more headlines will arise, because our system allows virtually anyone to own a gun, and despite public sympathy and outrage for the unthinkable choices of the gunman and innocent lives of the students, nothing has changed.
On March 9, the Mississippi House of Representatives killed a bill that would have allowed mothers to keep Medicaid coverage for a year after giving birth.
Book bans don’t help students; they only serve parents who want younger people, including but not limited to their own children, to be sheltered from ideas they disagree with.
Friday, December 17, was deemed “National School Shooting Day” by various anonymous TikTok accounts, which encouraged viewers to incite violence at their schools, including shootings and bombings.
"Both actual linguistic changes and conversations about linguistic changes are part of the process through which norms and attitudes change.”
Making women feel bad about their bodies and looks is good business for Facebook and Instagram, according to a former Facebook employee.
North Carolina’s Governor Roy Cooper signed Senate Bill 35, which increases the minimum age for marriage from 14 to 16 years old (under certain circumstances), into law on August 26.
Menstruation has long been stigmatized in our society, often portrayed as shameful or embarrassing rather than a natural function of the human body.
It is vital to know how your personal information is being absorbed and used by others.
Pandemic lockdowns led to worsening levels of depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder among adolescents.
The existence of racial disparities in health care treatment has been widely recognized for decades. The COVID-19 pandemic, however, has reinforced how deadly this unequal medical treatment can be.
On May 5, Democratic Representative Grace Meng of New York and Democratic Senator Mazie Hirono of Hawaii introduced the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act in response to the extreme increase in anti-Asian hate crimes over the last year.
As a 16-year-old, I’ve grown numb to acts of extremism in my country, and I’m hardly the only teenager to feel this way.
