Generation Citizen, Scott Warren
Generation Citizen, Scott Warren
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Generation Citizen
The Power of Youth in Our Politics

Author: Scott Warren

Narrator: Graham Halstead

Unabridged: 10 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/05/2019


Synopsis

America is at a crossroads. We are alienated from civic engagement, and our democracy is in doubt. Yet there is a new energy in the air. Young people are again taking up the role they've often held: as leaders of change, demanding a better future, wielding their votes to uphold democracy and lead the country forward.

Enter Generation Citizen, an organization dedicated to empowering youth through revitalizing civics education across America. Since its beginnings in 2009 during CEO and cofounder Scott Warren's senior year at Brown, Generation Citizen has grown to become one of the preeminent civics education organizations in the country.

Generation Citizen: The Power of Youth in Our Politics details Warren's political awakening alongside stories of how young people have always been the instruments of political change. Generation Citizen is also a practical guide, providing concrete steps to jumpstart an engagement with politics and rekindle our love of democracy. Through interviews with students and historical portraits of young people who have enacted great political change—from the civil rights movement to the election of Ronald Reagan to #BlackLivesMatter and the Parkland students' standing up to gun violence—Generation Citizen shows that time and again, it is the young people who lead the way to change.

About Scott Warren

Scott Warren is cofounder and Chief Executive Officer of Generation Citizen. He has been named an Echoing Green Fellow and a Draper Richards Kaplan Fellow, and Forbes magazine listed him as one of its 30 under 30 for Social Entrepreneurship. He has also been a social entrepreneur in residence at Brown University, and a social entrepreneur in residence at Tufts University. He is currently a democracy fellow at Brown University.


Reviews

Generation Citizen is a call to substantive political action in America and a defense of young people leading the charge for change. It isn't always clear who the audience of the book is intended to be, but it contains inspiring stories and practical steps toward political activism. While this is de......more

Goodreads review by KP

Read this as a potential common book for my University. I think it's an excellent book, with some real concrete information and steps that young folks can take in order to engage with their government and increase their civic participation, and I liked how the author was both open about being a Demo......more