President Barack Obama recently invited a group of 26 students from The Telling Room’s Young Writers & Leaders (YWL) program to join him for a special conversation about writing personal narratives. The YWL program is an intensive nine-month afterschool program created exclusively for international, multicultural, and 1st generation American high-school students belonging to Maine’s community of immigrants and refugees. NowThis, the online video news outlet, shared exclusive excerpts. To view the video, click here. Continue reading →