• Here + Now,  Spotlight

    Stronger Together: Youth Empowering Youth

    Their names are Michelle Bain and Li Koo—but I think of them as Danforth heroes.             Together, Bain and Koo founded Youth Empowering Youth (YEY), an organization with a mission as noble as it is challenging: to give agency to the children in Ontario’s child welfare system.             Bain is a lawyer by trade, as well as YEY’s director. Koo is a professor in Communications at George Brown College, and a recent candidate for the Toronto-Danforth Council seat in Ontario’s provincial election. Both are talented and professionally successful women who have thrown themselves headfirst into addressing the needs of our community.             The problem tackled by these women is, sadly,…