Youth Candidate Forum was a Success!

A group of KFTC members, age 5 to 25, organized a forum held earlier tonight focused on issues of importance to the US Senate race in Kentucky.  They'd invited the candidates to attend, send a representative, or at least a statement, but the candidates did none of these things. 

Undaunted, the youth decided to have a forum anyway to bring together other young people from across the state to talk about issues that matter to them and discuss the issues that the candidates largely refused to - like our education system, health care, and environmental justice.

A little over a hundred students came out and had some quality discussions.  Special thanks especially to the students from Woodford County for coming out in substantial numbers. 

"I taught here at UK for 40 years and this is one of the most inspiring and hopeful things I've seen on this campus." - Dr. Herb Reid

"The young people who came didn't hold back.  You didn't have to really pry anything out of these kids - they felt pretty comfortable talking about the issues that matter to them." - Lauralee Crain

Thanks to our youth facilitators - Makayla Urias, Patrick Dunn, Hollis Maxson, Greg Capillo, Tyler Patrick, Megan Naseman, Lauralee Crain, Myles Maxson, and Jared Flanery.

We'll have a further report about the event on the blog soon, so stay tuned.