Living as Laura

Never before have I traveled alone but as I told my mother this morning before I boarded the flight to Washington DC from Los Angeles, California, my endless travels  must begin sometime and today was the day. My passion for communicating through writing,  and voicing my opinion on daily issues occurring around the world is what I hope to enhance at this conference. Not only do I hope to affect people locally but globally, to force the public to have those needed moments of clarity, to not only lose their innocence to life around them but their indifference to it. Margaret Bourke-White brought the depression of the 1930’s into the households of all Americans through her photographs, not allowing them to turn their heads, however unpleasant the atrocities may be. Communication is the key to understanding one another, without it, without true journalists, without true media the wonders of humanity would be lost. I hope all of my fellow national youth correspondents will take away from this conference an unquenchable desire to communicate the truth, to share with all the importance of opinions, of thoughts and the act of putting those thoughts to paper, or teleprompter, or even a blog.