Youth ambassador teams at the teen-run Good Shepherd Services Youth Summit shared the impact of their
community projects and recommendations for the future with young people from across New York City. Each team
devises and implements a social action project of their choosing.
Photos by Nancy Fritsche-Eagan
Holding hands, seven young people stood in a circle doing final breathing exercises before their entrance onto the stage — the culmination of months of work to create a day where youth voices, including theirs, would be in the spotlight. The general message they received in their lives is that the