Sugar and spice and everything nice is so '90s, especially when you’re talking about the young female activist Mari Copeny, better known as Little Miss Flint. This tenacious 10-year old was made from excellence, determination and the strength of Athena. Oh, and let’s not forget the 100 percent melanin.

Little Miss Flint has accomplished things that Elon Musk could not in one tweet. Little Miss Flint has been on a fight to bring clean water to Flint for four years. And yes, if you sit and do the math, that means this little girl was starting a social movement to help her community at only six years old! At six years old, I was watching Saturday morning cartoons on ABC, and four years ago I was drunk somewhere in a bar crying because some boy didn’t text me back. Regardless of my own personal growth issues, Little Miss Flint is a force to be reckoned with.

Let’s go through a list of her accomplishments.

  • She's the founder of #DearFlintKids, which, as of February 2018, has collected over 3,000 letters for the children of Flint.
  • She has raised $10,000 to donate 1,000 backpacks to the kids of Flint, Michigan.
  • She's the youngest Women’s March Youth Ambassador, National Youth Ambassador for the Climate March, and Youth Ambassador for Equality for Her.
  • She penned a letter to president Obama in 2016 when she was 8 years old, bringing light to the Flint Crisis.
  • She has spoken at the 2017 Science March in Washington D.C.
  • She is speaking at the 2018 Mashable Social Good Summit along side Uzo Aduba, Padma Lakshmi, Sonia Alizadeh and more amazing women.

And that’s just a few of her accomplishments!

There is something about Generation Z. They're not just tweeting and saying, “Hell no, let’s fix this,” these kids are taking to the streets and using their voices. They are a force to be reckoned with, and I stand with them.

So, let us not forget, Flint still does not have clean water, and Little Miss Flint cannot do this alone. Although the news cycle is as transient as Washington, D.C., let’s continue to support causes that are damaging our communities.