Young People Lead is a podcast series featuring youth and young adults in Children’s Defense Fund programs whose lived experiences fuel their leadership. Season 2, “Bridging LA,” features the inaugural cohort of the Radical Imagination Fellowship. Across six conversations, fellows and community leaders reflect on foster care, youth homelessness, and healing and imagination as tools for systems change. This series invites listeners into a vision of leadership rooted in truth, resilience, and collective care.