Project Citizen

The Citizen Project will inspire you.  You will engage in civic action personally and directly.  You will meet young people, learn from them about the issues that matter in their lives, and teach them about the issues that matter to you, and together, we will learn about the limits of social justice and what it takes to make positive social change.  We will be active citizens, every day, all week.

We will engage in civic life on many levels.  We will engage with the judicial branch, from the Supreme Court all the way down to the local King County courts.  We’ll do moot courts on essential issues in our democracy, learning, speaking, and thinking.

We will join with two local community groups to help improve civic life, around issues of food and food justice, and refugee resettlement and acculturation.  We will join with young people in award-winning youth justice programs to dig deep into persistent civic problems, and then look for ways to solve them.  We will add our voices, and our strength, to their causes.

We will end our week in Olympia, visiting our state capitol with the objective of lobbying and engaging with elected officials to bring about real change.  We will present ideas, showing up and being counted by those who make the laws and distribute the resources in our state.  Our voices will be heard.

If you are interested in the law, if you are interested in citizenship, if you are interested in justice—this project is for you.  Join us!