"I have a beef in the way that youth are represented in media, and also in media literacy. I think in both cases, their agency’s kind of compromised."

"So I think that is, if you get there, if you get to the point where kids are reading because they want to, not because they're made to, if they have curiosity not because they're made to look into things but because they want to, the battles won."

"Our society is heavily based on reading, writing and arithmetic, and if you don’t fit into that kind of box, then you have a hard time feeling confident that you can. So, it’s important to start from the base, and that’s about confident, self-esteem, and self-empowerment."