robin brims almost 15 years of youth empowerment nonprofit management curriculum development and your facilitation experience to her role as executive director. she's a native of the washington, d.c. area, just passionate about providing authentic spaces for d.c. youth to investigate, affect and change the world around them. she will explore to go to more opportunities to bring you the voice into local decision-making and i let in people's ability to be engaged citizens and community leaders. but before turned over to them, i want to talk a little bit about a project that ralph sponsor in the early '90s which culminated in the book called civics for democracy your so it shouldn't be a big surprise to any of you that ralph saw great need for engaging young people in our system of government. let civic education in our schools was and still largely is focused on voting, jury duty and the three branches of government. students need to be equipped with the knowledge of citizen movements in our history with practical tools of participation as well as opportunities to practice those tools a