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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!”

Tomorrow is September 17th, a day that is traditionally observed as Citizenship Day in the United States. But what is one of the hallmark activities of citizenship? One could say one of the main responsibilities of that would be voting. During the summer, I and several organizations worked together to bring more awareness of theContinue reading “Citizenship & Voting”

I just wanted to send a special thanks to my team at Tufts University yesterday to help with the Frontiers of Democracy discussion panel to lower the voting age to 16. I think we all did a great job, brought more awareness to an important topic & had a great time while doing it. BigContinue reading “We Conquered in Boston!!”

An empty conference panel. I’ll most likely be a participant in an upcoming panel later this summer to talk about lowering the voting age to 16. This is pretty much a continuation of last month’s post, but with a twist. Rather than a call for panelists or a story about lowering the voting age, IContinue reading “To Boston & Beyond!”