Zach Gottlieb is the teen founder of Talk With Zach, a Gen Z movement and community that hosts important conversations to change the culture, inspire activism, and make the world a better place. Now 16, he founded Talk With Zach after losing his grandfather early in the pandemic; it started as an Instagram-based forum in which teens could talk about their issues and get advice from peers and experts. Gottlieb and Talk With Zach have been featured in TIME, “The Today Show,” Katie Couric Media, HuffPost, and by the nonprofit Challenge Success, among others. A regular speaker and podcast guest. Gottlieb’s motto is, “We can’t change what we don’t talk about.”
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Young people have it rough. From 2007 to 2019, the number of adolescents who reported having a depressive episode jumped 60 percent. And that increase was before the pandemic,...