and last but not least robin lingo. 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

lingo. meet the challenge d.c., a native of the washington, d.c. area, robins passionate about providing spaces for d.c. youth to change the world around them. she looks forward to building more opportunities to highlight young people's ability to be engaged citizens and community leaders. but before i turn it over to them, i want to the talk a little bit about a project that ralph sponsored in the early '90s which culminated in a book called "civics for democracy." so it shouldn't be a big surprise to any of you that ralph saw a great need for engaging young people in our system of government. but civic education in our schools was and still largely is focused on voting, jury dutying and knowing the three branches on of government. students needs to be equipped with the knowledge with practical tools of participation as well as opportunities to practice those tools and build civic schools. our goal was to train students to be fully engaged as citizen activists, not nearly as voters and volunteers. our schools do not teach chemistry without a laboratory, cooki