Young Adult Programs

This is what a lobbyist looks like

Chris Letts / FCNL

At FCNL, we are committed to growing our lobbying power, both here on Capitol Hill and across the country. One of the most effective ways to do that is by building power among the present and future leaders of movements for peace and justice: young adults. We're committed to providing training, resources, and programs that meet your needs.

Programs

Event Build Bridges Not Walls: Report on Spring Lobby Weekend 2018

March 17-20, 2018 in Washington, DC

Right before a major spending vote in Congress, 425 young adults came to Washington, DC from across the U.S. to lobby for a pathway to citizenship for Dreamers without hurting border communities or immigrant families.

Issues: Immigrants & Refugees

Work with FCNL Advocacy Corps

As an Advocacy Corps organizer, you'll connect local activists and leaders with your members of Congress to affect big, long-term change. You'll also learn critical organizing skills and put them into practice with hands-on leadership experience.

Issues: Environment & Energy

Work with FCNL Summer Internship

Work at FCNL’s office in Washington, DC throughout June and July to advance our witness for peace on Capitol Hill. FCNL offers several paid summer internships that provide a broad introduction to federal policy, grassroots organizing, and nonprofit management.

Work with FCNL Young Fellows Program

Apply by February 12, 2018

Recent college graduates spend 11 months working with key staff members at FCNL to build expertise in advocacy from a public interest perspective. Applications are due February 12, 2018 for the program beginning in August 2018.

Updates

Background Prison Reform: Not Enough to Seriously Address Mass Incarceration

The House passed prison reform without reductions to mandatory minimum sentences that have incarcerated millions; some for decades.

By José Santos Woss
Issues: Criminal Justice

Advocacy Corps 2018-2019

Meet the 2018-2019 class of Advocacy Corps Organizers. These twenty young adults from around the U.S. will be organizing their communities to stop the militarization of police.

Issues: Criminal Justice

Advocacy Resource June is Gun Violence Awareness Month

The month of June is Gun Violence Awareness Month, with a day of action taking place across the country on June 2nd. In preparation for this, we’re compiling some of our own resources as well as materials and information from coalition members and outside organizations that are getting involved.

By Andre Gobbo

Advocacy Resource 2018 Elections: Town Halls and Candidate Forums

Changing the Conversation

You can help shape what the elections in your Congressional district look like: ask questions at candidate forums, or even host a forum yourself!

Event Artist Talk: Art and Advocacy Through Comics

Join FCNL on June 1st at 6:30pm for an evening with our Friend in Washington Joey Hartmann-Dow as she shares about her experience creating a comic series about lobbying for social justice. Joey is a Quaker artist who has been working with FCNL this spring to create this project to show what it looks like to lobby for the first time.

Issues: Environment & Energy, Criminal Justice

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Am I welcome at FCNL?

Yes! All of our programs and events are open to young people of any background or identity. We are actively seeking people from diverse backgrounds, including in terms of race or ethnicity, economic status, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, and political affiliation. FCNL is a Quaker organization; we work with a moral framework and collaborate with people from a faith perspective. However, you do not need to be religious to participate. We encourage Quakers and people of other (or no) faiths to join us.

Work with FCNL Statement of Diversity and Inclusion

At FCNL, we embrace having a multitude of voices and talents working together to strengthen our impact in the world. In keeping with the Quaker testimony of equality, we strive to be an organization that welcomes, values and respects the different perspectives of every individual.

Meet the Young Adult Program Team

Katie Breslin

Young Adult Program Manager

As FCNL’s Young Adult Program Manager, Katie organizes, trains, and supports the efforts of young activists and leaders to affect big, long-term change within Congress. She offers hands-on leadership experience for young people across the country who work on their college campus or in their home community to mobilize people to engage with Congress.

Leona Amosah

Program Assistant, Young Adult Outreach

As an FCNL Young Fellow, Leona works closely with Katie Breslin on young adult outreach. She assists Katie Breslin in recruiting, training, and supporting young activists all over the U.S. in an effort to galvanize grassroots activism on college campuses and in communities as a whole.

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