Check out Charley Sky’s podcast appearance on “Resilient AF” with Blair Kaplan Venables
05.13.2025
Charley Sky Gardner, a 16-year-old junior, sits down to talk with Blair about her first book, Is This Love? They dive into what love is and how love is needed to be resilient. This is Sky’s story, and she is RESILIENT A.F.!
Watch the Video here or listen to the Spotify podcast here.
A Voice of Our Generation - Watch Charley Sky’s Speech from the INC 2024….
Watch Charley Sky Gardner deliver the stirring opening keynote at the 2024 Independent National Convention in Denver (September 17, 2024), before the adult keynote speaker, Marianne Williamson. With poetic clarity and heartfelt urgency, she speaks for young people navigating a world upended by isolation, blurred connections, and a digital landscape that both stretched and fractured us. Charley Sky illuminates how the shared experience of the pandemic altered our social empathy, reshaped our emotional resilience, and redefined what it means to belong. She calls us back to curiosity, compassion, and the transformative power of imagination—reminding us that healing and renewal begin with empathy and storytelling.
Her message isn’t just a reflection—it’s a roadmap to empathy-driven politics and communal reconnection. Don’t miss this compelling call to unity, love, and conscious leadership from one of today’s most resonant young voices.
Poem for a Silent Woman
by Charley Sky Gardner (11.22.22)
Read the poem that started Sky’s journey into writing about healthy relationships here. The poem placed Charley Sky as a finalist in the National Promising Young Writers Competition.
