Educating Youth About the Bill of Rights
Amanda Gelender has been an activist and lobbyist on several key issues in her school and in her community, including the death penalty, the "war on drugs," marriage equality, student rights, racial profiling and police brutality. Learn more
Teen Helps Promote Access to Health Care
For the past three years, Cristhian Ponce Barranco has been a dedicated leader in the New York Civil Liberties Union's Teen Health Initiative, a peer education and outreach program that promotes minors' rights to access health care Learn more
A Guardian of Free Speech in High Schools
Jarred Gamwell came to the ACLU for assistance in April 2004 after being censored by his high school principal when he was running for student body president. Learn more