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After the panel I moderated last month in Boston, the support for lowering the national voting age & the movement continues to grow. I recently met with the newly installed executive director of Vote16USA, who has expressed interest in working with several additional organizations, including some who collaborated with me in Boston, on a newContinue reading “Lowering The Voting Age Efforts – 2024”

So this weekend, specifically on June 15th, I wrapped up my participation in this year’s Frontiers of Democracy Conference.

A simple title from a news website. I don’t often do personal stories, but this one’s important. Many people don’t know this, but besides working on lowering the voting age to 16, I’m also a national vaccine advocate. Not only have I been advocating for vaccine health, but I’ve also spoken to the FDA, CDCContinue reading “A PH.D- at 16”

Pictured above is my registration badge from last year’s Frontiers of Democracy Conference in Boston. This June, we’re returning a year later to finish the job. This year is the first full post-pandemic year. Since the end of the Pandemic Health Emergency(PHE) last May, we have seen an effort to return to the routine- bothContinue reading “Let’s Finish the Job in 2024”

Last summer, I led supporters of lowering the voting age to 16 as both moderator & panel leader at the Frontiers of Democracy Conference in Boston, where we discussed the merits, support & challenges lowering the voting age would bring to a national audience of other fellow panelists. We had three days to speak toContinue reading “Going Back To Boston To Make Change”

A photo taken of the crew of the Eleanor Bolling, a ship that was led by then famous world explorer Admiral William Byrd. Of note in this picture is a young man on the lower left named Billy Gawronski, who had undertaken an extraordinary journey of his own just to appear in this photo. (ImageContinue reading “Good Teen Day: The Story of Billy Gawronski”

Working on a national issue requires a platform to coordinate from. I have chosen Ring A platform is currently being set up online where supporters of lowering the voting age can meet up. I believe Ring is the best app to use. I’ll provide the reasons below:

One year ago this week, European Parliamentary Member Terry Reintke announced that Germany had lowered its national voting age to 16. Around that same time, New Zealand began working to lower its national voting age to 16 after it was ruled by their supreme court that the current voting laws discriminated against young people. EarlierContinue reading “It is Time To Lower the Voting Age to 16”

A worker flexes his muscles. Like the worker, we need to build upon the gains we’ve made this summer regarding lowering the voting age to 16. This summer, I traveled across the U.S. in order to bring greater advocacy to lowering the voting age. I spoke at Tufts University in Boston to bring greater awarenessContinue reading “Let’s Get to Work!”