In the morning of October 12th 2016, Hundreds of women, majority young was getting ready to walk up Fifth Avenue to Trump Tower in Manhattan to protest, in response to Donald Trump recent released tapes of touching women inappropriate and how he has been treating women for many years.
Yong Jung Cho 26, a campaign coordinator led the protest. Cho is a campaign coordinator for 350.org. 350.org is a building a global climate movement. She is also the organizer for allofus2016, a group of millennials, who believe America should become a real democracy, where everyone’s voice should be represented.
“Trump refuses to take responsibility for his nasty words. The GOP refuses to take responsibility for making Trump be their nominee” said Cho
Cho grew up Ridgefield, New Jersey. Her parents are from South Korea. Growing up, her parents did not have social services like healthcare. Cho thought she was going to become a doctor to take care of her family and her community, but that changed when she got to Bryn Mawr College.
In Mawr, she got into her school government, where she learned how to get her voice heard. “We need to organize and built power so that we can be shifting the system,” said Cho.
She also got into climate issues in the world. “Most people in the United States know that climate change is happening and want leaders to take action not because is a threat for the future, but because it is happening right now, it has impacted people today”
(More to come. Statistics and her election view points.)