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I wanted to pass along the information for our Summer Civic Leadership training and internship program!

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Liam

Civic Leadership Training Program Description

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Building on a successful training program that has provided skills and training for thousands of students over the last 50 years, the Student PIRGs’ Civic Leadership Training Program will provide students the training they need to run effective campaigns in their community. Students who complete the program will receive a badge of completion on LinkedIn and opportunities for future leadership during the school year.

Skills you will learn
* Building a team of student volunteers and leaders
* How to use peer-to-peer tactics to mobilize students (phonebanking, class announcements, and in person events)
* Organizing strategic in person and online actions and events
* Developing campaign coalitions
* And more!


Expectations

This virtual, 3 week program will run multiple times in the months of May, June, and July. There will be about 4 hours of activist class each week and an additional 4-6 hours of independent work to be completed and reported by Friday afternoons. Students should expect to a 8-10 hours/week commitment

In addition to participating in weekly activist class, students will also join campaign teams to organize a campaign action in their community by the end of the program. Campaign teams may work on issues areas such ase:
* New Voters Project
* Affordable Textbooks
* Save the Bees
* Hunger and Homelessness
* Break Free From Plastics
* Restoring America’s Wildlife
* And more
Training Calendar
Here is the schedule for the various training cycles this summer. We will run the same 3 week training multiple times over the course of the summer. We will also run a 2 day boot camp, an accelerated version of the program.



Start Date
End Date
Duration
Training Cycle #1
5/22
6/9
3 weeks
Training Cycle #2
6/12
6/30
3 weeks
Training Cycle #3
7/10
7/28
3 weeks
Activist Training Boot Camp
8/1
8/2
2 days



Program Highlights
* We trained more than 100 student leaders in our 2022 Summer Program. Hear about the experiences ([link removed]) of our graduates!
* Graduates of our 2022 Civic Leadership Training Program were recognized as top leaders by the ALL IN Campus Campus Democracy Challenge 2023 Student Voting Honor Roll ([link removed])
* Our New Voters Project Campaign received national recognition by the Students Learn Students Vote Coalition, an award winner in the Centering and Trusting Local Leaders category. Several of our Civic Leadership Training Program graduates led this national campaign.



Meet some of our graduates


** Quanzelle Austrie, Class of 2023, University of South Florida
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Quanzelle is the Florida Campus Outreach Intern and New Voters Project Campaign Coordinator for University of South Florida. As a PIRG student leader, she worked with the Bulls Vote Coalition to help their campus earn an ALL IN Campus Democracy Goal Seal by achieving a student voting rate of 74.7%, an eleven percentage point increase from 2016. Quanzelle is working with vote coalition partners to help students from all four campuses at USF replicate her success and participate in the midterm election.


** Andres Cubillos, Class of 2024, Florida State University
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Andres Cubillos is a 3rd year political science and international affairs double major at Florida State University. Andres helped establish Florida PIRg Students at FSU’s first club in 2020 as the Campaign Coordinator for the New Voters Project Campaign and helped increase FSU precinct voter turnout by 13%. Andres now works as the external affairs and outreach chair focusing on club building and coalition development.


** Maria Ayala, Class of 2022, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
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Maria was a PIRG student leader in North Carolina at UNC - Charlotte and joined our team to work full-time organizing students in the state. Since graduating, Maria hit the ground running, working with a dozen college campuses in North Carolina to help them create and hone their campus civic engagement action plans leading up to the November elections.


** Hanna Lesiak, Class of 2023, Northwestern University
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Hanna, a student and member of the women's volleyball team at Northwestern University, worked with our national partners at All Vote No Play and Athletes Unlimited to organize a panel and training for student athletes to learn how to train their teams to become civically active this fall.


** Sydney Greenway, Class of 2024, Wayne State University
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Sydney is a 2nd-year urban studies and sociology double major at Wayne State University. As president of PIRGIM Campus Action at WSU, Sydney has worked to further establish PIRGIM on WSU’s campus and strengthen relations with PIRGIM clubs across Michigan. She worked as campaign coordinator for the New Voters Project at WSU ahead of the 2022 Midterm Election where she mobilized students on her own campus and others in the Detroit area.

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