Generation Citizen

Generation Citizen ( www.GenerationCitizen.org ) is an innovative, quickly scaling non-profit that seeks to strengthen our nation's democracy by empowering young people to become engaged and effective citizens. GC believes all students have the right to an effective civics education that prepares them to participate in our democracy. GC partners with schools to implement an Action Civics program that teaches students how to address community issues through local government. Students develop communication, collaboration, and critical thinking skills and are given space to learn and practice the behaviors of active citizenship within an academic setting. As a pioneer in the field, GC also advocates for Action Civics on a national scale. This approach is revolutionizing civics education in this country, and is, in its 8th year of operation, serving more than 13,000 students across its six sites (Central Texas, Greater Boston, New York City, Oklahoma City, Rhode Island, and the San Francisco Bay Area) and beyond. In the 2017-18 school year alone, we will provide Action Civics to more than 1,800 students in the Bay Area. We are led by co-founder and CEO, Scott Warren, a former recipient of a Draper Richards Kaplan Fellowship and an Echoing Green Fellowship who was named one of Forbes' Top 30 Social Entrepreneurs under 30. Generation Citizen is building a new generation of youth leaders, a generation inspired and equipped to make change.