
This zine (i.e., short magazine) was developed with support from the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation’s Foster Youth Initiative, for which Child Trends serves as evaluation partner. Since 2022, we have partnered with an Evaluation Advisory Board and three cohorts of interns, all comprised of young people with lived experience in foster care. Our 2025 interns authored this zine to reflect Advisory Board members’ and interns’ voices, perspectives, and advice for future youth researchers; we are so grateful for their leadership.