The Democracy Project

It’s become a huge family and we’ve been super collaborative in terms of being able to fundraise and just create this whole project from the ground up.  We started with a mind mapping experience and that came all the way from a community garden to a green space and seeing it develop from last year has been an amazing experience.

I think our project will help the community by having a sanctuary that’s safe for people to go when they don’t feel like they have one. It’ll be a fun space to hang out with your friends and it’ll make our community look nicer.

We were able to introduce a bill to the legislature and create a website about mental health and spread this information, and skill sets, and vocabulary surrounding mental health for the teens in our state and that is a very pressing, pertinent, and important issue for us all.

I got involved in Democracy Project is because I wanted to make a difference in my community and that led me to actually being interested in what’s happening at the state level in the state legislature.  That’s the reason why I launched a campaign to become a representative.

The Democracy Project kind of just opened our eyes that we could make a change if we wanted to, instead of just waiting around for the next person to do it. We just take the initiative to do it ourselves.