VIRTUAL: Helping Kids Today “Make It”: A Book Talk With Stephanie Malia Krauss, MSW ’06

Children today are growing up during a time of rapid change and volatility. They only know life with smart technologies and artificial intelligence. COVID, a changing climate, and worsening racial and economic disparities are just some of the complex challenges they will face. In this talk about her book, Making it: What Today's Kids Need for Tomorrow's World, Brown School of Social Work alumna Stephanie Malia Krauss shares research and practical insights about what these digital and disruption natives need to prepare for the future and how we can help them succeed. 

Purchase Making It: What Today’s Kids Need for Tomorrow’s World and attend this session to get a personalized signed bookplate from the author. To receive your signed bookplate, purchase a book using one of the links below, and send your receipt to info@stephaniemaliakrauss.com before or after the event.

Bookshop purchases: https://bookshop.org/books/making-it-what-today-s-kids-need-for-tomorrow-s-world/9781119577034
Amazon purchases: https://www.amazon.com/Making-What-Todays-Tomorrows-World/dp/1119577039

This event will be recorded.

About our speaker:
Stephanie Malia Krauss is a senior advisor to Jobs for the Future (JFF), staffs the economic well-being workgroup for the Youth Transition Funders Group (YTFG), and consults nationally on youth readiness and well-being. Through her work and writing, Stephanie relentlessly focused on what young people need to be ready for the world and what the world needs to be ready for them.  

Stephanie previously served as a senior fellow with the Corporation for a Skilled Workforce, the Forum for Youth Investment, and Students at the Center. In these roles, she designed and led initiatives focused on college and career readiness, credentials, reimagining public education, and economic justice. Stephanie directed the national Connecting Credentials campaign and co-directed The Readiness Project.