Gen-Z for Change began in 2020 with Kohn-Murphy creating the
TikTok account "TikTok for Biden" to support the
presidential bid of
Joe Biden. As of August 2022 it is a registered
501(c)(4) organisation with a core team of 15–20 people and a coalition of over 500 content creators and activists, which together have 540 million followers and receive 1.5 billion monthly views on social media. It has been the subject of significant news coverage, especially after coordinating a one-hour briefing with the
White House for 30 prominent TikTok content creators about the United States’ strategic goals regarding the
Russian invasion of Ukraine, which was
parodied by
Saturday Night Live. Kohn-Murphy himself is featured prominently in this coverage, in part because of his young age (he was 16 when he created the TikTok for Biden account). Many articles characterise him as politically precocious, and the first news coverage of his political activism is a 2011
Washington Post article about then-seven-year-old Kohn-Murphy's testimony before a
D. C. Council Committee of the Whole, Youth Issues hearing, against the ban of
chocolate milk in Washington, D.C.'s public schools. Kohn-Murphy was also interviewed by
The New York Times in 2022 as president of the
Georgetown Day School's Student Staff Council regarding controversy over
anti-racism teaching in schools, unrelated to his work with Gen-Z for Change. == Personal life ==