Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" Foundation is officially launching today

and José Hernández from Salinas is representing Monterey County at the Harvard launch!

Eighteen youth leaders selected from communities across California took part of the celebration. The Born This Way Foundation aims at empowering youth to be leaders and advocates in their communities.

Born This Way will try to explore the best ways to reach youth and create a new culture of kindness, bravery, acceptance and empowerment. BTWF, a non-profit charitable organization, will address issues like self-confidence, well-being, anti-bullying, mentoring and career development through research, education and advocacy.

During the launch, California youth will take part in training to learn how to advance social change through digital and social media advocacy, and will be posting multimedia content live throughout the day of the event. The youth also join in a Harvard-sponsored youth summit titled "Prevent Bullying, Create Caring Communities" involving more than a hundred young people from Boston and other communities. California youth also will tour the Harvard University campus.

If you want to get to know more about the California delegation, click here. Jose is not featured, but maybe his video can be added later??????