# What Braver Angels Learns From Gen Z: Natalie Laroche and Genevieve Raushenbush Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/how-do-we-fix-it-667/what-braver-angels-learns-from-gen-z-natalie-laroche-and-genevieve-raushenbush Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/how-do-we-fix-it-667/what-braver-angels-learns-from-gen-z-natalie-laroche-and-genevieve-raushenbush.md Podcast: [How Do We Fix It?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/how-do-we-fix-it-667) Published: 2026-01-30T16:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://shows.acast.com/howdowefixit/episodes/what-braver-angels-learns-from-gen-z-natalie-laroche-and-gen Audio file: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/acast/s/howdowefixit/e/697bdfaeb29f9abc9cbd46a0/media.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/how-do-we-fix-it-667/episodes/what-braver-angels-learns-from-gen-z-natalie-laroche-and-genevieve-raushenbush Duration seconds: 1936 ## Resource If we’re going to get out of the political mess that we’re in right now, we will need a lot of help from Gen Z. Young people inherited our broken civic space, and they’re ones who will be the  courageous citizens  who   reimagine it. In this episode we learn from two former  Braver Angels  debate interns, Natalie LaRoche and Genevieve Raushenbush, about the skills, energy, and passion students and young people bring to the movement to depolarize politics. We also hear from them about they have learned at Braver Angels. Natalie LaRoche  is the program manager for the Debate Team. Natalie was an intern in late 2021 and joined the Braver Angels staff a year later. She holds a BA in Government at Smith College.  Genevieve Raushenbush  was a recent intern at Braver Angels. Now she works at  Sway , a start up focused on mobilizing citizen-led voting groups. Genevieve holds a B.A. in Economics from Harvard University and in 2025 was a legislate intern on the Hill. Both women are in their mid-twenties. “Young people are disengaging from political chaos,” says Natalie. But they’re also “really passionate about engaging in bridging movement exercises, whether with Braver Angels or partnership organizations like Bridge USA on campuses or Heterodox Academy. There are so many organizations in this space that really do engage young people.” Both Natalie and Genevieve share creative ideas about how young people can help Braver Angels up its game with new forms of digital outreach. We share two examples of short videos they created. Genevieve told us what she’s learning about reaching out and organizing voters in her work with Sway, “How Do We Fix It?” reports on the people, p… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/how-do-we-fix-it-667/episodes/what-braver-angels-learns-from-gen-z-natalie-laroche-and-genevieve-raushenbush/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/how-do-we-fix-it-667/what-braver-angels-learns-from-gen-z-natalie-laroche-and-genevieve-raushenbush.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.