The American Teenager Project is a new initiative inspired by the experience of photographer Robin Bowman on her five-year journey into the heart of teenage America. During her travels across the country beginning after September 11, 2001, Robin created a series of 419 “collaborative portraits.” These searing and intimate contemporary photographs, presented alongside the young people’s own voices of passion, pride, embarrassment, lust, dread, pain, anxiety, instability and rage, are drawn together in her award-winning book It’s Complicated: The American Teenager which charts the coming of age of the largest generation in U.S. history. Through The American Teenager Project we will use mobile, interactive galleries to bring Robin’s collection to at least 250,000 teenage participants each year and annually provide 20,000 young adults with the opportunity to participate in the accompanying IC Workshops. These immersion workshops bring young people together across difference to help them develop alternative perspectives toward the world around and beyond themselves, and to foster a compassionate understanding of “the other” in their lives.