This week, students across the country are promoting peace, unity, and acceptance in their schools and communities! On this week's episode of the Contagious Courage Podcast, co-founder of Day Without Hate, Adam Baca shares about how it all began, and how young people are going to be the ones who change the world!

Do you want to bring Day Without Hate to your school?! For more information, visit www.daywithouthate.org

Motivational speaker and kindness advocate, Houston Kraft, shares about helping youth build strong character and the importance of choosing love. Visit characterstrong.com for more information and make sure to check out the Character Strong podcast!

This April marks 25 years since the 1994 Rwandan Genocide. Family friend, Carl Wilkens, the only American who chose to stay during the genocide, joins me on this weeks episode. Carl talks about making the decision to say "I'm not leaving", his experience while throughout the genocide, and how the country is doing now 25 years later. 

For more information on Carl, please visit www.worldoutsidemyshoes.org 

In honor of Women's History Month, Asia Green shares her talent and love for spoken word poetry with a poem she wrote about what it's like to be a woman and to be black. Get ready to be moved and inspired as you hear the power in Asia's voice in 'I'm Not'.

What does menstrual inequality, the White House, and NASA all have in common?

21 year old, Manju Bangalore shares her story of founding a non-profit, Operatio Period, at the young age of 17 to address menstrual inequality.  She also shares how her courage and not giving up when told "no", led her to FOUR internships with NASA and interning in the White House under the Obama Administration. 

*Disclosure: It appears that there were technical difficulties in the recording. Please forgive the delayed response by Manju, and the cutting off by me - I promise I wasn't actually interupting her :)