To truly reach people, stories can’t just be told—they have to be shareable, teachable, and actionable for every age. Trinity City Arts began in 2014 with a simple goal: make the tools of storytelling and civic engagement accessible to kids, teens, parents, and elders alike. What started as a community play about policing and neighborhood safety has grown into a hands-on “artivism” lab, where theater—and now comics—become entry points for reading, writing, drawing, and speaking up together.

Today, their North Star is unchanged: young people must be seen and heard.

In this conversation, we meet two of those voices—Trinity City Arts interns and Issue #2 writers Alexander Warren and Je’Miyah Suggs, both now college sophomores. They came to the project through 826 New Orleans, carrying different strengths. Alex is a lifelong comics fan who began writing seriously during COVID, turning dyslexia into a source of clarity and purpose. Je’Miyah is a poet whose teachers pushed her to share her work publicly, discovering along the way a vocation for community-rooted storytelling.

Together, they’re learning the craft—and the collaboration—behind building a world: shaping character voices, working with artists, and translating the music, beauty, and hard truths of New Orleans into panels where young readers can see themselves.