Senior year at Holland High School, Koroknay-Palicz discovered several local businesses with policies limiting the number of students allowed inside at any one time.
The matter was referred to Al Serrano in the city's Human Rights Department, who succeeded in overturning the policies at all the stores in question.
He currently serves on NYRA's board of directors and is organizing the #16tovote Coalition in support of the 16-year-old voting age bill in Washington, D.C. As spokesman for the National Youth Rights Association, Koroknay-Palicz's first major media citation dates to 2000 when Slate.com interviewed him.
They include the subject of student rights in The Christian Science Monitor;[11] youth suffrage in The Boston Globe[12] and the Los Angeles Times;[13] the legal drinking age in The New York Times;[14] internet censorship in the Chicago Tribune;[15] curfews in the Jackson Free Press,[16] and; the minimum driving age in USA Today[17] and the Associated Press.
[19] He has also been cited on the topics of ageism in the Olympics,[20] graduated driver licensing,[18] civics education[21] public schools,[22] the Bong Hits 4 Jesus trial,[23] youth criminalization,[24] and several other issues.