Since the age of four, I've been exploring what I can do with the written word: everything from championing literacy and youth voice to raising awareness about world hunger.

Our words can have power that we don't think we have in everyday life - anyone can make a difference.

I realise I'm still a child, though I do feel older.

Enthusiasm just creates bubbles; it doesn't keep them from popping.

Since the age of four, I've been exploring what I can do with the written word: everything from championing literacy and youth voice to raising awareness about world hunger.

As children, we have a tenuous idea of love; we often try to quantify it with how much we feel seen and heard.

I realise I'm still a child, though I do feel older. I recently did an on-line test called 'What's Your True Age?' My result was 50-60 years old.