In Spring 2015, a 12th grade economics class at John O’Connell High School in San Francisco identified unaffordable rent prices as an issue for families in the Mission district. After much research, the students determined that the root cause of this issue was a lack...
Carmen Sobczak was one of the first Democracy Coaches on the Brown University campus and is a current member of the Generation Citizen Bay Area Board. Carmen was 17 in 2008, too young to vote in the presidential election in her home state of California, but eager to...
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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