The System
posing with Congressman Joe Kennedy, in D.C.
LAWRE NCE A C ADE MY O N - CA MP U S W I N TE R I M PR OG R A MS For nearly 15 years, Lawrence Academy students have been exploring the United States government through e System. is on-campus Winterim program offers an honest, digestible look at how the organizations and people who run the country work. “I wanted to bring some knowledge to our students, so that if they’re talking about ‘the system’, they understand that it’s made up of regular people and buildings, and if you want to go see how it works, you can,” says e System Winterim leader Brian Feigenbaum, LA’s Director of Dance who also holds a law degree and has more than a decade of community and political organizing experience. “It’s our lives hanging in the balance, and if we don’t have the passion, education, and knowledge to make it work better, we are naïve – but, if we learn how the system works, we can effect change.”