Want to be an activist? Start with your toys, by McKenna Pope (Nicole Trumper)

McKenna Pope is a teenager that explains her experience for make people understand that everyone can make a change.

When she was 13 he convinced to the American toy company Hasbro for change the way that they marketed one of their most famous product, an Easy-Bake Oven.

She did this because her younger brother, Gabi, loved to cook, but he worried about using an Easy-Bake Oven — because it was a toy for girls. Her brother realized that in the commercials and in the boxes of the products were only women’s pictures and also they had very gender-specific colors to females, like pink or purple.

So she tried to change this and she decided to wrote a post in the Change.org page, which is an online petition-sharing platform where everyone can make a petition and share it with all the social media networks, like Tweeter, YouTube, Facebook... and made her online petition for the American toy company Hasbro to change the pink-and-purple color scheme on the classic toy and incorporate boys into its TV marketing

This petition started to take off very quickly; she was interwoven by national outlets.

Hasbro change his product, creating new an Easy-Bake Oven in black, silver and blue.

She realized that her opinions counts and she was able to make a change but for achieve her objective she had to pass a lot of obstacles, like for example people that were disrespectful with her and with her family, and it discouraged her.

But then she realized that there are always going to be people that won’t be agree with you, so if you want to make a change, just do it. 

Nicole Trumper