Biography
Koroknay-Palicz was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan and grew up in Holland, Michigan. By high school, he began to articulate that inequality in terms of ageism and wrote articles for his school newspaper on the subject. Senior year at Holland High School, Koroknay-Palicz discovered several local businesses with policies limiting the number of students allowed inside at any one time. Recognizing these policies as ageism, he decided to do something about it. After much research he learned these policies were illegal under Michigan's Elliot-Larsen Civil Rights Act. Koroknay-Palicz demanded the city to enforce this law at a speech before a Holland city council meeting. The matter was referred to Al Serrano in the city's Human Rights Department, who succeeded in overturning the policies at all the stores in question.
In 1999 Koroknay-Palicz began attending American University in Washington, D.C.. After three years he left to begin his youth rights career. He quickly became involved in the youth rights movement, and has worked as the executive director of the National Youth Rights Association since 2000. Koroknay-Palicz has become a major figure in all aspects of the youth rights movement and has made fighting ageism his chief purpose. Koroknay-Palicz serves on the board of advisors for the Freechild Project, and is currently working on a Youth Rights book with Adam Fletcher. His writing appears in several publications and websites. In 2006 Koroknay-Palicz joined the Board of Directors of CAFETY.
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