CivicLex is launching a K12 program

Two years ago, thanks to the… insistence of our Programmatic Board President and longtime collaborator Carly Muetterties, CivicLex started thinking about what it would look like to scale our focus on adult civic education to an intergenerational lens. Every day, we help folks across our city understand how essential it is for them to participate in local civic life, and while young folks have been a part of that, it’s never been an explicit focus.

Now, after two long years of planning, we’re finally ramping up a new program, built in partnership with Aaron Davis and a handful of high school civics teachers in Fayette County Public Schools as well Megan Brandon and Generation Citizen. We’ve hired the wonderful Stephanie Mobley as our Director of Civic Education with 29 years of public school experience, recruited our wonderful teacher cohort, and are now working together to get this program into the classroom.

While we will have a formal announcement and more details to come soon, we’re deeply excited at the reaction of many inside Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government and other parts of our city’s fabric - so many folks are ready to help make this program successful. We’re excited to do our part to help leverage our experience to help young people understand the ins and outs of local government and how they have agency to build Lexington into a city in which they can stay and thrive.

A big thanks to Jason Terrell and the Walton Family Foundation for their belief in this program, which would not have been possible otherwise.