Q&A with Youth Activist Naomi Wadler

Wadler is also a youth adviser to the Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality, which in 2017 published a study showing that adults view black girls as less innocent than their white peers. Wadler will be speaking on that study and more Sept. 8 at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. If you have experienced “adultification bias,” you can share your story here.