Mikva Challenge
Amari R. is an experienced leader and educator currently serving as the Council Lead for the New City/Back of the Yards Council at Mikva Challenge since October 2022, where responsibilities include implementing council curriculum and guiding students in team building and leadership development. Previous roles include Teacher Assistant at Little Hands Learning Center, Intern with the Neighborhood Leadership Initiative at Mikva Challenge, and Summer Intern at Teach For America, where skills in social media management and content creation were developed. Additionally, mentoring and tutoring young girls at the Gary Comer Youth Center during the pandemic, as well as a summer internship with State Senator Elgie R Sims, further contribute to a strong background in community engagement. Amari R. holds a High School Diploma from Westinghouse College Prep and is pursuing education at the University of Illinois Chicago.
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Mikva Challenge
Mikva Challenge develops youth to be informed, empowered, and active citizens and community leaders. We do this by engaging youth in action civics, an authentic and transformative learning process built on youth voice and youth expertise. Core Values: Our values challenge the status quo. Traditional schooling emphasizes adult lectures and students as passive learners. Mikva Challenges adheres to the following core values when implementing our mission: We believe that by providing high quality programming in under-resourced communities and schools, we can eliminate the civic achievement gap. We believe that if youth voice is included in decision-making that policy makers will make more informed decisions. We believe that the best way to learn democracy is to do democracy. We believe action civics is an essential tool to help young people develop the skills, knowledge, and attitudes to be informed, empowered, and active citizens. We believe youth are not apathetic, and that by inviting them into the political process they will become powerful and thoughtful citizens. We believe that Mikva Challenge always needs to be nonpartisan to allow young people to formulate their own opinions and choose the candidates and issues they want to support. Vision: Mikva Challenge envisions a world where: Citizens are informed, empowered, and active Youth voice is valued in decision making Civic leaders reflect the nation’s diversity Action civics is prioritized in education