to create this project. And in case there’s any doubt about our intentions, together,we’ve built a website This isn't the first time Chance has taken part in a social media challenge. Hefilmed his #SoGoneChallenge “Online education can increase access to higher education for so many students who wouldn’t be able to attend otherwise, and it’s not going anywhere,” says Ortagus. Even as someone who has so much privilege and who left school following my freshman year at a traditional university, had I not found the online bachelor’s degree program I ultimately graduated from, there is a world in which I wouldn’t have finished school. I needed to work, so I needed flexibility, and because I was able to find that, I emerged from college not as a traditional student but as a fulfilled one; someone who felt their courses of study were tailored to their life, and maintains relationships with some of my professors to this day. “We were looking for ways to heal in the city and from that came amazing music and visual art and this abundant creative community of young black people in St. Louis,” she says. “[Creating FTCTV] was a way to honor the creative scene that had risen from the ashes in St. Louis."You canwatchSmoke Cityon FTCTV nowTyler SmallGet theTeen VogueTake.Sign up for theTeen Vogueweekly emailWant more fromTeen Vogue? Check this out: