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Grace Masback

A passionate, politics loving, 18-year-old who aims to give voice to the voiceless via journalism, community outreach, and advocacy.

Grace Masback, 18, aspires to give voice to the voiceless and holds the modest ambition of becoming the voice of Gen Z. She’s the founder of WANT, a news, sports, and entertainment website that aggregates the best in high school journalism from school papers and teen bloggers worldwide (www.wantnewsforteens.com). Grace writes for the Huffington Post and AwesomenessTV.com and consults on web strategy and content for School of Doodle. She was recently the Oregon Representative to the Neuharth Free Spirit & Journalism Conference (Washington, D.C.) and the ANNpower Vital Voices Forum (NYC), and was awarded a Catlin Gabel Innovation Fellowship to develop a summer journalism program for disadvantaged youth. In March, she took her third visit to rural villages in Nicaragua, where she focuses on empowering girls, helping them realize the life-altering nature of gaining the skills necessary for a productive career. Back home in Portland, Oregon, she works with the Bus Project to register young people to vote, ran the youth campaign for a successful mayoral candidate, and co-organized the city’s first-ever forum on the police use of force. She lives by the C.G. Jung admonition, “You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do."