Who will lead America in the years to come? Letters from Young Activists introduces America s bold exciting new generation of activists. These diverse authors challenge the common misconception that today s young people are apathetic shallow and materialistic. Aged ten to thirty-one these atheist Christian Jewish Muslim pagan transgender heterosexual bisexual metrosexual Americans are from every type of background and ethnicity but are united by their struggle toward a common goal. They are the inheritors of their parents legacy from the sixties but also have the imagination and courage to embark on new paths and different directions. In letters addressed to their parents to past generations to each other to the youth of tomorrow and to their future selves each author articulates his or her vision for the world as they work towards racial economic gender environmental and global justice. As the editors write in their introduction: From globalization to the war on terrorism and beyond our generation is compelled to action in the midst of a rapidly changing and unique political moment Our challenge and yours is to live our lives in a way that does not make a mockery of our values.