Aptos Highschool Leaders Speak Out

Two Aptos High students, Emily and Lucy, talk about their work as podcasters and environmental activists. The Aptos Community Youth Program is a free youth leadership and arts engagement program offered to students in the Santa Cruz County area. As part of their work digital media and visual art outlets such as podcasting, film production, photography, and painting murals have become part of their work in sharing stories of the youth as well as taking on projects that benefit the community such as school supply drives, volunteering with local non-profits, and working with elders in the community. Two students Lucy and Emily are on the student leadership board of this organization, and a part of the Aptos High School ASB. They have been involved in ACYP since middle school and their early high school years and now find themselves as seniors at Aptos High School.