Area student selected for Equity in Civics Youth Fellowship

From staff reports

A student at Redbank Valley High School is one of 12 high schoolers across the nation who has been selected to take part in the inaugural Equity in Civics Youth Fellowship.

Matthew Green, a junior at Redbank Valley High School, is participating in the year long program which is designed to help students “explore how civic education can become more relevant to all American youth and to build their own civic leadership skills,” according to a press release from Matthew Green.

Green was nominated by teachers and mentors for the program and then submitted a self-assessment and essay.

Throughout the school year students from across the nation will participate in in-person and virtual workshops and training designed to prepare them to speak about “civic equity.”

The program “will give students the opportunity to work with experts in civic engagement, advocacy, social and traditional media, and digital literacy to help build leadership and communication skills so that they can become student ambassadors for equity in civic education,” the press release said.

The fellowship was created through a collaboration between iCivics and Generation Citizen with funding from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.