Sami Schalk was 13 years old when she walked into an after-school Young Women Writing for (a) Change program. After her first experience, she participated in Young Women Writing for (a) Change school-year and summer week-long programs for seven years until her high school graduation in 2004. In her own words, “After my sophomore year of college at Miami University I had lost touch with who I was as a woman, a poet, believer in change, I was no longer who I wanted to be and the last place I could remember being true to myself was at Women Writing…”