Running Away from Your Problems Won’t Help
By fighting a lot in school, I became a criminal that was crying out for help. I started fighting at the age of six. I had a lot of anger in me because of my past and at the time that was all I knew...
View ArticleEven When You Think You Have No Options, You Do
There were a lot of people that thought the world was going to end in 2012. For me, the end happened in 2013. That’s when my life changed forever. Being 15 years old already has its problems, but I had...
View ArticleOrphaned At a Young Age
The wonder of my life, both of my loving parents were gone, and not gone for a while but gone forever. It wasn’t easy, but I made it through. When I was 19 years old, I was in my sister’s dorm room at...
View ArticleLost In a Cloud of Smoke
Being the youngest of a family of junkies, I was already expected to do drugs. After I was placed in foster care the first time at age nine, that’s when my family really started splitting apart. I had...
View ArticleAdvocating for Youth Is Crucial
Some of our youth — current foster youth, some from group homes and some youth who are about to age out of the system — came together and brainstormed ideas for stories they wanted to share with the...
View ArticleVOX Produces New Brand and Home for Teen Voice
ATLANTA, June 26, 2015 — After 22 years of providing a safe home for Atlanta teenagers to express themselves, VOX is proud to provide share its new digital home — VOXATL.COM — for those voices to be...
View ArticleI’m the Hero of My Story – VOX Volunteer Michelle Hiskey Looks Back
Thirty years later, veteran VOX Teen Communications volunteer Michelle Hiskey still remembers the name of her first teen writing mentor — Mark Bialczak. At age 15, the College Park, Maryland teen and...
View ArticleWhat Legacy Will I Have? CNN Volunteer Reflects on Work with Teens
As her family members back in the U.S. blinked sleep out of their eyes watching the 5 a.m. fireworks display on CNN, Gwen Anderson Warren, a sound technician for the global cable news outlet was on a...
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A Second Home
The brightly hued hand-drawn cover for the MARTA Transportation-themed VOX Spring 2010 print edition first grabbed Alexandria Wilson’s attention as she sat at a computer doing her digital homework one...
View ArticleSolid or Sketchy? When Training is Everything
If you’ve worked in journalism for 25 years, you can suffer an acute twinge through the heart when teenagers in 2015 categorize the Washington Post and National Public Radio as “sketchy” news sources....
View ArticleSummer at VOX: Intern Interview with Cat
Catherine Boyd (or “Cat”, as she’s known around here!) is a rising freshman at the college of her choice and one of our summer interns. Read on to learn more about why she’s spending her summer at VOX....
View ArticleSummer at VOX: The Intern Chronicles Continue
Mikael Trench, VOX summer intern, is a rising freshman at the Savannah College of Art & Design and a future Oscar winner. Why did you join VOX? I’ve known Mac Rowe [VOX teen staff and Board member]...
View ArticleListen to the Poet: Atlanta Word Works Heads to Brave New Voices
Photo caption: (Back row, from left) Ivan; Itsel, team coach; Jaha Bela; Cole Jones-Ford, Atlanta Word Works summer intern. (Front row) Natalie Cook, Victoria, Ninel, Nia.) Photo by Kiaya Simone...
View ArticleVOX History: A look back at the 1996 Olympics
By Jeff Romig, Executive Director Jeans and a cute hat. Even though it’s been 20 years, Dena McClurkin Brummer could never forget the outfit she chose to wear to what was, at that point, the most...
View ArticleWelcome Sarah, VOX’s Director of Atlanta Teen Voices!
We are very excited to welcome Sarah, our Director of Atlanta Teen Voices, to the VOX family! She started in August of 2016 and has hit the ground running with our teens, our partners and more. Stay...
View ArticleVOX Vision: Rebecca Rolfe
It takes an entire community to make VOX the place where teens speak and Atlanta listens. We couldn’t do this work without our volunteers, donors, alumni, staff, Board, community partners and of...
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‘Luke Cage’ Might Be Bullet-Proof But He’s No Match For VOX’s Teen Superheroes
This fall, the comics enthusiasts at VOX were excitedly counting down the days until this premiere of “Marvel’s Luke Cage” on Netflix. I should mention that Mr. Cage’s fan base isn’t restricted to the...
View ArticleLindsey Knox, VOX Superhero
By Jeff Romig, Executive Director I don’t know VOX without Lindsey Knox. On one of my first days as VOX’s new executive director in early 2013, I met one of VOX’s most dedicated volunteers as she...
View ArticleVOX Vision: Alyssa Lasseter
It takes a lot of people behind the scenes to make VOX the place where teens speak and Atlanta listens. We spoke with long-time VOX volunteer and supporter Alyssa Lasseter about her work here. How did...
View Article100 Days
By Jeff Romig, Executive Director This past Halloween, I initiated a mission. I decided that for the next 100 days, I would work daily on being healthy and happy. To myself, I called it ‘Healthy by 39’...
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