Safiya Alsamarrai was the recipient of the 2018 MA Student Changemaker Award. Safiya was a student at Lowell High School and a student in the class that received the Overall Civics Day Award. She gave the following speech at the Spring 2018 Massachusetts Civics Day....
California Civics Day gathered students from Berkeley, Oakland, and San Francisco school districts. 33 issue projects in total were presented. Homelessness, Affordable Housing, Immigration, Gun Violence, Sexual Assault, and Pollution were among some of the most...
Del Sesto Middle School 7th grader Anyla’s confidence and maturity made her a strong role model for her fellow students as they worked to address gang violence. But it was her personal connection to the issue that motivated her to take action. At Civics Day, Anyla...
When Willard Middle School 8th grader Lexie Tesch and her classmates chose to challenge youth and LGBTQ+ homelessness in Berkeley by advocating for funding for the city’s first year-round youth shelter, they realized that in order for things to get better in their...
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