their executive director, marion ortiz, joins as on the program. tell us more about the city school. ms. ortiz: it is an organization with the mission to bring young people together, and we are intentional about making sure it is a diverse group of young people from different neighborhoods, class, gender, and we want them to get exposed to a curriculum of learning had to be social justice leaders. karen: how do you do that? we make sure they received training and education on the different issues that are not only impacting them and their communities, and we make them be protagonists in making sure that the change needed in their communities takes place. through your programs to the young leaders. ms. ortiz: that is right, yes. we use many different approaches to it we have learned that young so we' re very intentional about making sure that our program is peer-t o-peer education. a lot of our young people follow our ladder of leadership we created for them. over the years him if they start with us at age 14, by the time now leading groups of young