I'm sitting in the Pittsburgh airport, waiting for my flight back to Washington, DC after an eventful three days here working with YP4 Fellow Robin Lane and other Pitt students to get out the vote on campus.  I was amazed by how dedicated the students we worked with -- volunteers for Sierra Student Coalition's Reenergize the Vote campaign -- were to this work!  

We thought we’d get a head-start on the upcoming regional trainings in Pittsburgh, Oakland, and Atlanta by opening up a discussion here on the YP4 Blog to

Undeniably, the hottest topic and source for discourse and debate across America right now is health care.

I have been fairly silent about the passage of disappointing ballot initiatives in California, Florida, and Arizona, restricting the marriage rights of queer people in those states.  I have been silent on this because until recently, the issue of marriage equality was, quite frankly, not that important to me.  I realize that that sentiment might have made me a little unpopular in the queer commu

I’m sure a lot of you have heard about the exciting work that Elody Gyekis is doing in her hometown of Millheim, Pennsylvania.  Yesterday was the culmination of the Valley Roots project, an unveiling ceremony and reception for the community of Millheim to celebrate their beautiful new landmark—a mural on the

Elody Gyekis, a 2008 fellow from Penn State, is busy implementing her Blueprint for Social Justice! Valley Roots - Approaching a Mural as a Process of Community Engagement is a Blueprint that Elody designed to address the rural decline facing her hometown, Millheim, PA. She is using this creative and collaborative project to create an intergenerational and diverse dialogue among community members and encourage civic participation.

Elody recently welcomed Matt Popek and Arielle Hesse to Milheim. Matt and Arielle rolled up their sleeves and went to work contributing to Elody’s Blueprint.

This was forwarded to me this morning... I Vote, You Vote (a project of American Democracy Institute and CREDO Mobile) is "a peer-to-peer system built to get more young people to vote. It is more than just voter registration because it allows politically engaged individuals to finally get their social networks to register."