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These posts are here for you to explore, learn, and strengthen your citizen muscles!

  • What does it mean right now to live like a citizen?

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    • Live Like a Citizen

    Reflections from Eric Liu, CEO and Co-Founder

    Eric Liu speaking to a crowd from a stage with a Civic Saturday podium.
  • Instructions Not Included: Building Strong Bridges from Scratch

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    • Live Like a Citizen

    Joy Udoh, a Youth Collaboratory alum, shows us how we're more powerful than we might think.

    A small group of people standing on a lawn, under a tent.
  • Civic Power at the Super Bowl: Lessons from Kendrick Lamar

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    • Live Like a Citizen
    • Understand Citizenship

    Charisma C. Thomas explores how Kendrick Lamar used his civic power to spark conversation and give "the Black history lesson our nation needed."

    A graphic with a black background. In the center is white text, reading" CIVIC POWER AT THE SUPER BOWL: Lessons from Kendrick Lamar." Surrounding the white text are colorful, red, yellow, and brown fists. The Citizen University logo is in the top, left corner.
  • The Five P's

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    • Live Like a Citizen
    • Understand Citizenship

    A message from Eric Liu on what citizens can do right now

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  • 7 Stories of Civic Culture

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    • Understand Citizenship

    Everyday Americans strengthening the culture of their place through connection, responsibility taking, and joy.

    A person playing a guitar on a stage in front of a crowd singing.
  • Citizen University's 2024 Annual Report

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    • Live Like a Citizen

    Reflections on a year of pain, possibility, and progress toward building a culture of powerful, responsible citizenship.

    A collage of images of diverse people smiling together.
  • Civic culture: messaging & storytelling guidance

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    • Eric Liu
    • Rebuild Civic Faith
    • Understand Citizenship

    Recommendations and resources to support your writing and reporting to tell more compelling "stories of us."

    A group photo of Citizen University participants sitting in a circle of chairs, engaging in a discussion.
  • A Place of Possibility

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    How Atlanta’s civic leaders share mutual aid to propel each other’s projects

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  • The Art of Finding Yourself

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    • Understand Citizenship

    Youth Collaboratory student Ciera Roseboro shares how claiming your power can come from helping others claim theirs.

    Three young people working on a project at a table and smiling
  • Proud to be an American? It’s complicated.

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    • Understand Citizenship

    Reckoning with our role as an American is part of what it means to live like a citizen.

    A young person looking at a wall with pictures and stickynotes.
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