When Aleksi Toiviainen was fifteen, he led a protest against changes in his school’s curriculum that removed content on LGBTQ and indigenous communities. Aleksi rallied over five hundred students to walk out against these curriculum changes, yet follow-up actions that attempted to protect this content failed. In the wake of this defeat, Aleksi felt powerless. His experience is common for young people trying to engage in politics on a larger scale, too. Young people have taken to the streets and…