By Kyla Calvert
Pop icon Lady Gaga is launching her Born This Way Foundation in Boston this week and Mark Tran, a San Diego organizer, will be on hand as one of California’s 18 young adult delegates.
Lady Gaga is partnering with The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard, the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and The California Endowment to launch her Born This Way Foundation. The foundation will train youth to be leaders and advocates in their communities.
That’s the kind of work that Mark Tran does for the City Heights community advocacy group Mid-City CAN everyday. He says he’s spent the last two years getting neighborhood kids involved in shaping City Heights’ future.