marshal, who later resigned because of the derisive international attention. Awards and honors In 2016 Lysiak and her sister Izzy received a Tribeca Disruptive Innovations Award. Lysiak interviewed Nobel Peace Prize recipient Malala Yousafzai during a visit to Providence, Rhode Island. Lysiak donated all the advertising revenue from the Orange Street News for a month to the Malala Fund which promotes female education. On September 20, 2019, Lysiak was awarded a Junior Zenger Award for Press Freedom. In her acceptance speech, Lysiak spoke about the need for reporters to stay focused on the truth. Commencement speech On May 10, 2019 Lysiak (aged 12 years, 6 months, 8 days) became possibly the youngest person in U.S. history to deliver a college commencement speech when she outlined her vision for the future of journalism for the graduating class at West Virginia University's Reed College of Media. The speech was called "one of the year's most inspirational commencement speeches." In the 13-minute speech, which was covered nationally, Lysiak confronted the current generation of journalists. Books In June 2016, Lysiak signed a deal with Scholastic to co-write a series of four books with her father under the title Hilde Cracks the Case. The main characters are based on Lysiak and her sister and photographer, Izzy, with fictionalized versions of real stories that Lysiak has written. A series of six books was published between 2017 and 2019. Lysiak's memoir, Hilde on the Record, is due to be released April 19, 2022. Television series Paramount Television and Anonymous Content also developed a television show based on the books and optioned Lysiak's life story. Apple announced in 2018 that they would be producing the series titled Home Before Dark, with Brooklynn Prince in the lead role of Lysiak. Home Before Dark premiered on Apple TV+ on April 3, 2020. Fundraising In March 2016, Lysiak began a GoFundMe site to raise $40,000 for her borough in Selinsgrove to hire an additional police officer in response to increasing vandalism. She attended the borough council meeting and addressed the council members. On April 5, 2016, the Orange Street News reported that a new police officer had been hired for the borough. References External links Orange Street News homepage Living people American child writers Journalists from Pennsylvania 2006 births American women journalists 21st-century American journalists People from Bay Ridge, Brooklyn Journalists from New York City People from Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania 21st-century American