We’re demanding a better online world for everyone.
Our advocacy, expertise, and grassroots power have directly shaped major progress in the movement for responsible tech – through federal change, state change, and public awareness initiatives.
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States
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MEMBERS
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MEMBER ORGS
12,000 +
youth network
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youth network
State Change
Our coalition’s state leaders organize youth activists to advocate for legislation that prioritizes safety by default and privacy by design.
Our coalition was founded following a historically successful namesake campaign to pass the first-of-its-kind California Age-Appropriate Design Code in 2022. We mobilized hundreds of youth activists and students to support the passage, and demonstrated that youth voices are key to the advancement of tech reform legislation. The campaign’s success enabled us to expand into the coalition we are today. Since our launch in 2023, we’ve built organizing hubs in critical states like Vermont, Maryland and Illinois. We demand that Big Tech companies design their products for us, not for their bottom line. We’ve led the successful passage of Age-Appropriate Design Code legislation in Maryland and Vermont, and will fight to keep up the momentum for state change nationwide.
Federal Change
As a leading youth coalition driving tech reform, Design It For Us leverages personal experience as expertise to fight for federal legislation that prioritizes user wellbeing over Big Tech’s profit.
We’ve built grassroots power that helped to drive the passage of legislation in 2024 like the Kids Online Safety Act and the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act in the Senate (91-3!). We endorse legislation that meets the expectations we set in our policy platform and our Declaration of Digital Rights, including legislation that shapes AI development, improves social media products and helps to fight back against the consolidation of Big Tech’s power. When a supermajority of our coalition supports legislation, we mobilize and use our unique perspectives to drive historic federal progress on regulatory approaches that can realize a better online world for all.
Public Awareness
We’re using our experience to ensure that policymakers, peers, innovators and changemakers understand how tech is impacting our generation and why tech must be designed with us in mind.
As digital natives, we know that our experience is expertise. We’re not all technologists, but we’re growing up in tandem with tech. We’ve heard from young people across the country about these issues through our campus tour. We’ve created products, like our Tech Unfiltered video series, to explain why tech products as we know them are detrimental to us in service of company profit, and empower our generation to demand better.