Cobb Student Selected for the United States Senate Youth Program

Jack Lakis has been selected as one of Georgia’s delegates to the 61st class of the United States Senate Youth Program (USSYP). Each year, the State Departments of Education around the country engage young leaders in a highly competitive, merit-based selection process for this honor. Ultimately, only 2 students from each state are chosen as del egates.

Jack will receive a $10,000 scholarship and have the privilege of participating in Wash ington Week. Co-Sponsored by the Wil liam Randolph Hearst Foundation and the United States Senate, Washington Week allows students to observe the Federal Government and learn from our nation’s policy makers. The ex cursion will be held from March 4thMarch 11th and includes meetings with all members of the Senate, a Supreme Court Justice, the President of the Unit ed States, and leaders from several executive agencies.

He is the first Cobb County student in over a decade to be selected as a delegate and the first ever student from Harrison High School to do so.

Jack, a senior at Harrison High School, serves as the Student Body secretary. He also serves as the Georgia state lead in Project TEAL, an organization dedicated to promoting civic education and oversees curriculum, policy, and the group’s efforts to lobby at the Georgia General Assembly. Jack recently founded Atlanta’s chapter of the History Retold Project, promoting inclusive, civics-based classrooms. As a narrative media specialist for the Georgia Youth Justice Coalition and a staff writer for Vox Atlanta, Jack works to ensure that students’ voices are represented in the political sphere. At school, he founded Political Converse, an organization that supports student engagement with current events and government in a nonpartisan atmosphere. Jack plans to major in political science or international politics before continuing to law school. He hopes to become a Supreme Court clerk and one day serve as a Supreme Court justice.

Congratulations Jack! #ourtownproud Go Hoyas!

For more information please visit: www.ussenateyouth.org