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Empower yourself in today’s highly connected, socially conscious world as you learn how to wield your passions, digital tools, and the principles of social entrepreneurship to affect real change in your schools, communities, and beyond. At age eleven, Jessica Markowitz learned that girls in Rwanda faced barriers to attending school—and turned her concern into action by helping create Richard’s Rwanda. As a high school sophomore, Zach Steinfeld put his love of baking to work by starting the Baking for Breast Cancer Club. You don’t have to wait until you’re an adult to make a difference. Whether you want to address an issue in your school, strengthen your community, support a cause you care about, or tackle a bigger problem, Be a Changemaker gives you the practical tools to turn your passion into action. Through inspiring profiles of young changemakers, step-by-step exercises, and approachable advice, you’ll learn how to take an idea and build it into something that