Meet Natalie Flaherty, the Minnesota girl who turned a 2023 Halloween idea into an anti-hate campaign distributing 100,000+ bracelets across 50+ countries; now the 12-year-old has won a $10,000 national Young Hero prize
Natalie Flaherty, a 12-year-old from Minnesota who distributed over 100,000 anti-hate bracelets, is one of this year’s Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes winners. The tween won the $10,000 award for her global initiative, ‘I Stand with Anne’, which aims to transform Holocaust remembrance into daily action. The bracelets she made read, “I Stand With…

