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

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

PREPARE Passes, Persistence Pays Off

In 2015, I was a junior in college, studying environmental biology. I was keenly aware of the issue of climate change and trying to figure out what I could do to get involved as a college student.

By Scott Greenler
Issues: Environment & Energy

Update The Poor People’s Campaign: a National Call for Moral Revival

by Eric Ginsburg, Assistant Clerk, FCNL Executive Committee

The Poor People's Campaign: a National Call for Moral Revival begins on May 14, 2018, kicking off 40 days of nonviolent direct action across the U.S. Eric Ginsburg, Assistant Clerk of FCNL's General Committee, writes about his involvement in the Poor People's Campaign and its connection with FCNL's mission and values.

Event Young Adult Friend Ice Cream Social and Activist Storytelling!

Thursday, May 17 at 6pm in the Quaker Welcome Center

Join young adult Friends, Joey Hartmann-Dow, Lauren Brownlee, and Jamie Demarco for a time of discussion on how to remain spiritually sustained as young adult activists.

By Michelle Beers
Issues: Environment & Energy, Criminal Justice, Economic Justice, Nuclear Weapons

Update Seeks Series

A Friend in Washington Project

This Spring, an unconventional Friend in Washington joins FCNL at 205 C. St. Joey Hartmann-Dow is a Young Adult Friend from Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, currently collaborating with FCNL to create a series of comic books about lobbying.

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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