Changing The World Through Volunteerism

Simone Bernstein is a senior at St. Bonaventure University. She is an active volunteer in her hometown of St. Louis, MO and in her college community. Simone and her brother launched VolunTEEN Nation in March 2012. Volunteennation.org is a national youth-led volunteer driven non-profit organization providing an online resource for youth to easily find volunteer opportunities. VolunTEEN Nation has over 5,500 organizations listed on the site and more than 16,500 students have found opportunities to volunteer.

Organizations like NASCAR, Energizer, Bank of America, and L’Oreal Paris have expressed support for VolunTEEN Nation. Simone herself has spoken at numerous conferences throughout the nation, writes a column for the Huffington Post. She was a 2010 L’Oreal Paris Woman of Worth, one of the 2013 Forbes 30 under 30 list, and is one of Glamour’s 2013 Top 10 College Women.

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Tayo Rockson is the CEO and President of UYD Media, a media company that encourages people all over the world to use their difference to make a difference while celebrating diversity and educating others. He is an avid writer whose work can be seen on the Huffington Post, Among Worlds Magazine as well as Global Living Magazine. He is an authority on Third Culture Kids and assimilation into new cultures. He is the author of The Ultimate Guide To TCK Living and through his podcast and blog, he is heard and read by thousands of people in over 100 countries. He grew up in four different continents so he considers himself a citizen of the world. He has lived in Sweden, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Vietnam and the United States and his goal is to ultimately leave the world a better place than it was before he came into it. Once he discovered that he was a Third Culture Kid (TCK) or someone who spent the formative part of his childhood years (0-18) outside of his parents' culture, he vowed to use his global identity to make an impact in the world. Feel free to connect with him on Twitter @TayoRockson where he is actively making new friends every day.