Kevin Killer used his 2006 Young People For (YP4) fellowship to educate people on his reservation about a ballot initiative that would have banned civil unions.
Coming from an area with 70 to 80 percent unemployment, he's now a trainer with Campus Camp Wellstone and has been elected President of the YP4 Network.
Learn more about the YP4 fellowship…
In the News
Jul 30, 2007
Religious Bonds Divide Some Parents, Kids
USA Today, July 8
Reem Rahman, 2007 Fellow at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, appears in this cover article about young people who are more overtly religious than their parents.
There Goes the Neighborhood
WireTap (reprinted widely), July 17
In this article, 2007 Fellow Laura Hadden confronts the escalating dilemma of gentrification.
Starting an Online Revolution
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Former Communications Specialist Jamia Wilson moderated the panel “Starting an Online Revolution,” in which panelists Elizabeth Brookbank, Ezra Callahan, Ginny Hunt and Tom Matzzie discussed issues surrounding online organizing. Watch the video.
Yearly Kos Youth Panel
Future Majority, July 24
Future Majority notes that YP4 Program Director Shaunna Thomas and 2006 Fellow Adam Conner will participate in the panel “Building the Progressive Youth Movement” at this year’s YearlyKos Convention.
Around the Tubes: 7/26/07
Future Majority, July 26
Future Majority mentioned Young People For’s new Progressive Academy Online course, Social Sector Issues 101, and the fact that it has been advertised on Facebook.