05/19/2026
When we named Cayden Brown a SEEN Changemaker award winner in 2024, he was 17 years old — still in high school, still too young to vote — and already standing on the podium of the United Nations speaking on behalf of young people who had no one else in their corner, as a teen court defense attorney and founder of The Trespass Project.
He told us then that age was irrelevant when it came to making a difference. He has spent everyday since proving it.
Now 19, Cayden has graduated, is pursuing his degree at University of Detroit Mercy, and continues building the Trespass Project into a global force for youth justice. And today, he added one more chapter to a story that started when he was just 6 years old, sitting in a courtroom, waiting for someone to ask how he felt.
Nobody did. So he wrote the book.
The Kid in the Courtroom is Cayden’s debut childrens picture. Ok — and it is exactly the resource he wished he had all those years ago.
We are so proud to have played even a small part in his journey, and so honored to keep telling it.
Read the full feature at the link in bio and buy the book for a loved one or donate to put it in the hands of a child in need.
