Civics In Action! Washington D.C. 2018

 

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Highlights from the 2018 trip!

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Media:

• Fox News

• Garrett Haake, MSNBC (Interviewed by our student journalists as he raced to cover a breaking story!)

 

Policy Experts:

• Jeremy Bash – Former Chief of Staff at the Department of Defense & CIA

• Kate Bedingfield – Former Communications Director for Joe Biden

• Amy Dacey – Former CEO of the Democratic National Committee

• Eric Fanning – Former United States Secretary of the Army

• Doug Heye – Former Communications Director for the Republican National Committee, CNN Political Commentator & WSJ contributor, Harvard IOP fellow

• Jen Psaki – Former White House Communications Director for Barack Obama

• Stuart Delery - Acting Associate Attorney General of the United States, the third-ranking position at the U.S. Department of Justice

 

Law Makers:  

• Senator Richard Blumenthal (Interviewed by student journalist who stopped the Senator on his way to a meeting!)

• Senator Roy Blunt

• Senator Dianne Feinstein

• Senator Kamala Harris

• Senator John McCain – Meeting with his Director of Communication

• Senator Shelley Moore Capito

• Senator Patricia Murray

• Representative Nanette Barragan

• Representative David Cicilline

• Attended a Senate Finance Committee meeting
   

NGOs:

• American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)

• Born Free USA

• Child Labor Coalition

• Global Fund for Children

• Human Rights Campaign (HRC)

• International Labour Organization

• International Fund for Animal Welfare

• National Geographic

• Save the Children Action Network

• World Wildlife Fund
   

Government Agencies:

• Environmental Protection Agency

• Global Change Research Program
   

And Fun!:

• National Museum of African American History & Culture

• Newseum

• Air & Space Museum

• U.S. Capitol

• Jefferson Memorial

• Lincoln Memorial – (where students recited the Gettysburg Address)

• Policy group dinners at restaurants chosen based on 6th grade country reports!