National Geographic - USA (2020-08)

Winter

BREEANNE

Youth activist

teen has developed a

program to promote

civic engagement

among youths. She

wants them to under-

stand that voting mat-

ters. “That’s how we

elect the people who

This is the first year that

BreeAnne, a student at

Howard University, will

be old enough to vote

for president. A veteran

of several get-out-the-

vote campaigns, the

Riverside, California,

represent us,” she says.

“If we aren’t voicing our

opinion that way, when

we have the ability

and not everybody is

afforded that right, we

are relinquishing a lot

of political power.”

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