Civic activity is not only about elections. It's community involvement that lasts year round. Join the CT Civic Ambassadors for a day of sharing thought provoking action ideas to drive our communities toward a positive change in 2020 and beyond.- Keynote Address: Scott Warren, Author and CEO, Generation Citizen
- A panel of outstanding young civic leaders
- A CT Civic Ambassadors panel sharing what's working
- Learning and sharing with others
Mr. Warren will address how youth civic leadership has evolved, what youth civic leadership could look like and what kinds of leadership building and engagement opportunities and models we need to create to bring about the next generation of diverse young civic leaders.
Registration is free and lunch will be provided.
Scott Warren is the Chief Executive Officer of Generation Citizen, a national nonprofit organization based in New York City. He co-founded Generation Citizen at Brown University with fellow student Anna Ninan during their senior year, working with students in the local Providence community. From that starting point in 2008, Scott has grown Generation Citizen to become one of the preeminent civics education organizations in the country, promoting Action Civics across diverse geographies through best-in-class programming and concrete policy change. Scott has served as a Social Entrepreneur in Residence at Brown University and Tufts University. Scott was named an Echoing Green Fellow in 2010, and a Draper Richards Kaplan Fellow in 2012. He continues to write on subjects ranging youth political engagement to African politics to sports, and has been published and featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, the Christian Science Monitor, Education Week, the New York Daily News, Huffington Post, San Diego Union Tribune, Sports Illustrated, Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Providence Journal. His new book, Generation Citizen: The Power of Youth in Our Politics, was published in 2019.
Support for Generation Citizen: the Power of Youth Civic Engagement is made possible by a quick grant from Connecticut Humanities and through funding provided by the State of Connecticut.
The Hartford Public Library is a co-sponsor of this program.
Hartford Media Group is the official media sponsor of this program.
QUESTIONS?
Contact Val Ramos, vramos@everyday-democracy.org
