UCLA’s 2015 survey of US students found that “interest in political and civic engagement has reached the highest levels since the study began 50 years ago. Nearly 1 in 10 incoming first-year students expects to participate in Student protests while in college.” In The 2014 Allstate-National Journal Heartland Monitor Poll, 83 percent of Millennials said that if Americans volunteered more time and money to community groups and charitable organizations, it would make life better around them. Meanwhile, the poll also showed that 66 percent of millennials believe local business—another community-focused effort—can help them live a good life. Less than half of non-millennials agreed with them. But while millennials exhibit more faith in community volunteering and entrepreneurship than other Americans, they set historically low marks for trust in government last year, according to a Harvard University Institute of Politics survey. What political movements do millennials care about? How will the future of activism be shaped by technology and globalization? Our Millennial Bloggers are based all over the world. They are innovators in entrepreneurship, journalism, education, entertainment, and academic scholarship. We asked them to weigh in.

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