Olivia Seltzer Interview Extended Cut 👩🏻‍💻

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We're sharing extended versions of some of our favorite interviews this week, with extra stuff our awesome listeners didn’t get to hear the first time around! 👩🏻‍💻 Meet Olivia Seltzer, the 16-year-old founder of The Cramm, a news source for Gen Z. 📝 When did she come up with the idea for The Cramm? 💯 What's Olivia's ultimate goal with The Cramm? 👏 We'll let her tell you that! Plus - the Fun Fact of the Day!

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Bethany Van Delft: [00:00:00] Hey Ten’ners. Oh my gosh, The Ten News is so busy this week, planning ways to make the show even better for you in the coming months. So while we are working hard and definitely not playing video games, wink, wink, we're giving you a look back at one of our favorite interviews. I'm Bethany Van Delft and on today's The Ten News, get ready to be inspired by a teen, who's helping her generation stay informed. It's the extended version of my conversation with Olivia Seltzer, the founder of The Cramm newsletter. It's got stuff you didn't hear the first time around. Okay, let's get into The Ten News.

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[00:00:50] There are young people just like you out there finding meaningful ways to make a difference in our world. I caught up with 16 year old Olivia Seltzer, founder of the popular newsletter, The Cramm to learn more about how she's sparking change by sharing information. For anyone out there who doesn't know, why don't you tell us what The Cramm is?

Olivia Seltzer: [00:06:34] The Cram is a daily newsletter for Gen Z. Basically what I do is wake up at 5:00 AM every day to read the news, create relevant stories, and then rewrite them in a way that truly speaks to gen Z, so we have news that's engaging, digestible and accessible. Then I send this out in a newsletter via email, text, social media, IGTV, a podcast, basically everything out there and multiple languages to readers [00:07:00] in over 100 countries all over the world with the goal of educating and activating our generation.

Bethany Van Delft: [00:07:06] Holy guacamole. How did you get this idea?

Olivia Seltzer: [00:07:09] When I was 12 years old and it was the 2016 U.S. Presidential election. I remember the day after I went to school, the majority of the kids at my school are the children of undocumented immigrants.

[00:07:21] And there was, there was a lot of talk about what was going on in our government. And I think it was one of the first times we all really felt this direct connection to what was happening in our government. Um, so we all were talking a lot about the news and politics, but at the same time, none of us were actually reading or watching the news because it's primarily written by and geared towards an older demographic.

[00:07:43] And I saw this as a really huge problem, but if you don't know what's going on in the world, you can't really do anything to fix the problems that need to be fixed. So my whole life I've always loved writing, so I kind of figured, okay, why don't I just create the solution? So a couple months later, in February of [00:08:00] 2017, I sent out the very first newsletter and I've been writing them every single day since. Now we have about 500 youth ambassadors all over the world who work to spread the cram in a variety of different ways.

Bethany Van Delft: [00:08:05] Oh, that's incredible. And are they also contributors and interviewers and content providers?

Olivia Seltzer: [00:08:06] I have an editorial team who helps with sending in stories from their respective locations. So I can try to, I can try to give like a broader spectrum of gen Z and the kinds of stories happening around the world. So it's not as like US centric. They also interview inspiring young people to feature in newsletters. I'm a big believer in the ripple effect of activism.

[00:08:26] If you have these big youth activists, you're going to see more youth activist across every field who are going to be inspired.

Bethany Van Delft: [00:08:33] What would

Olivia Seltzer: [00:08:33] you say to

Bethany Van Delft: [00:08:34] kids who aren't old enough to vote, but want to make a difference?

Olivia Seltzer: [00:08:39] So I think that it's a matter of making sure that you are informed for when it is your time to vote, because I've noticed that that's a really big problem is that a lot of people turn 18.

[00:08:48] They've never been exposed to politics before, because they haven't been expected to be because they can't get involved in that traditional kind of way. And then they don't vote because they don't know who to vote for. So make sure that when it is your time to vote, [00:09:00] you are informed about the issues that you feel confident voting, make sure that you are getting involved in all of those unconventional ways that Gen Z are.

[00:09:07] Are creating whether that is raising awareness on social media, participating in a protest or rally, or even creating one of your own.

Bethany Van Delft: [00:09:15] Fantastic. Thank you. So, so, so much for taking the time to talk with us. I know that you're busy.

[00:09:22] Thank you.

Olivia Seltzer: [00:09:23] I mean, The Cramm would be nothing if we didn't have people like you supporting so thank you so much.

Bethany Van Delft: [00:09:29] To hear more of my talk with Olivia, go to TheTenNews.com.

[00:09:33] It's time for your fun back to the day. Did you know that for most people it's impossible to lick your own elbow? Go ahead and try it. I'll wait. Oh,

[00:09:48] Okay. I tried it. It's not possible.

[00:09:54] Well, time's up. That's the end of The Ten for today. You can catch new episodes on Tuesdays [00:10:00] and Thursdays. The Ten News is a coproduction of Small, But Mighty Media in collaboration with Next Chapter Podcasts and distributed by iHeart Radio. The Ten News writing team is led by Editorial Director, Tracy Crooks with contributions from Steven Tompkins.

[00:10:17] The creative producer is Jenner Pascua. Marketing is led by Jacob Bronstein with social media and web support by Adam Pharr. Editing and sound designed by Pete Musto under the production direction of Jeremiah Tittle. Executive producer Donald Albright and show creator Tracy Leeds Kaplan round out the team.

[00:10:40] If you have questions about the show, a story idea, or a fun fact you want to share, email us@helloattennews.com. I'm Bethany Van Delft and thanks for listening to The Ten. Now go tell your friends everything you learned today. [00:11:00]